Sentences with phrase «german photomontage»

Current exhibitions are Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s, Agitated Images: John Heartfield & German Photomontage, 1920 - 1938, and (Lo & Behold)(Mira & Ve)(site - specific artwork by Lawrence Weiner).

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German artist Hannah Höch was a true radical: a trailblazer of photomontage who started out writing for women's handicraft mags, and the first lady of dada — though they constantly tried to elbow her out.

In photomontage series titled Caspar David Friedrich (2009) he references paintings of the famous German painter and creates LED lightboxes where he combines Friedrich's paintings and photos.

This silkscreen (an edition of 20) by Shinro Ohtake is a tribute to German Dadaist Hannah Höch, who was instrumental to the development of 20th - century photomontage.

These pioneers included the Impressionist Mary Cassatt, who painted a mural on the subject of Modern Woman (1893) for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago; the photomontage artist Hannah Hoch, the Mexican Frida Kahlo, and the sculptor Kathe Kollwitz, all of whom raised issues about power and representation in gender; the German - born painter Eva Hesse, the Russian - born assemblage artist Louise Nevelson, and the French sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who all produced imagery dealing with the theme of domesticity and the female body.

Hannah Hoch, Richard Huelsenbeck, John Heartfield, and others pioneered the technique of photomontage, using preexisting photographs, often drawn from mass - media sources, to create composite images that sharply critiqued German society and culture in the aftermath of World War I. Drawing on the foundations of Dada, neo-avant-garde artists of the 1950s like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns created assemblages that brought collage techniques into three dimensions — laying the groundwork for much contemporary sculpture — as well as works on paper that incorporated found elements drawn from the mass media and everyday life.

The lingua franca of the German avant - garde in the 1930s was assemblage, a bi-product of the 1920s German revolutionary photomontage.