Not exact matches
Rosler is oddly absent, but then, conceptual
photomontage probably doesn't count
as painting per se.
This exhibition charts Höch's career beginning with early works influenced by her time working in the fashion industry to key
photomontages from her Dada period, such
as Hochfinanz (High Finance)(1923), which sees notable figures collaged together with emblems of industry in a critique of the relationship between financiers and the military at the height of an economic crisis in Europe.
Romare Bearden's collage is typically associated
as beginning with his groundbreaking 1964
photomontage and photostats, coming out of his particpation with the Spiral Group.
The term «cut and paste» though known today
as the most common denominator in the plethora of graphic tools available in software like Photoshop, was originally and literally the act of manually cutting and pasting photos and other elements in collages and
photomontages.
Meanwhile a portfolio of
photomontages mixes that masterpiece with a snapshot of Ms. Ostoya
as a teenager, a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe and an image of a robot, amongst other surreal juxtapositions.
In anticipation of the centennial of the Russian Revolution, this exhibition examines key developments and new modes of abstraction, including Suprematism and Constructivism,
as well
as avant - garde poetry, film, and
photomontage.
Although her work was not
as acclaimed after the war
as it had been before, she continued to produce her
photomontages and exhibit them internationally until her death in 1978, in Berlin.
They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes, such
as photograms and
photomontages; to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera; to political and documentary engagements with themes of labor history and globalization in the 1980s; to post-appropriative forms of archival and historical reconstitution since 2000.
These conceptually complex but aesthetically cogent
photomontages, which were the focal point of «Maraviglia,» Spranzi's recent exhibition at P420, are each composed of two images: The first — a page pulled from a book or magazine on a subject such
as geography, astronomy, or botany — serves
as a background or frame for the
Importantly for Höch,
photomontage was rooted in everyday forms such
as jokey military postcards and tourist souvenirs (showing, for example, the head of an infantryman
As part of our ongoing partnership with Art Practical, today we bring you a review of Robert Heinecken and Edmund Teske's work in experimental
photomontage at Robert Koch Gallery.
Although popularly thought of
as the three - dimensional counterpart of collage, Assemblage in fact encompasses both 2 - D collages and
photomontages,
as well
as 3 - D sculpture and entire - room environments.
During the late twentieth century, the concept of collage broadened and spread far beyond the visual arts to include musical and architectural arrangements
as well
as photographic collage (
photomontage), assemblage and crafts like decoupage.
«Through Leger, Matter met and began working for Swiss graphic designer and photographer Herbert Matter, who,
as an artist for Condé Nast publications, was largely responsible for translating the
photomontage innovations of the dadaists into the visual vocabulary of the cultural mainstream.
In 2004 and 2008, in opposition to the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, she reinstituted her now well - known series of
photomontages «Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful,» made
as a response to the war in Vietnam in the late 1960s.
The exhibition will include a group of new
photomontages,
as well
as new sculpture.
In the wake of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, Rosler revisited the
photomontage format, but reflecting the new spaces and technologies of war and its representations, in such works
as Prospect for Today, Point and Shoot, and Invasion (2008).
A pioneer of
photomontage, whose images of women presaged the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir and Second Wave Feminism half a century later, Hoch was a pivotal figure in Dada, the anti-art movement that outraged conventional opinion in the final years of World War One, working alongside iconic male artists such
as George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann.
They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes (such
as photograms and
photomontages), to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera, to political and documentary engagements with labor history and globalization in the 1980s and 1990s, to forms of archival and historical reconstitution made since 2000.
In 2004 and 2008, in opposition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, she reinstituted her now well - known series of
photomontages Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, made
as a response to the war in Vietnam in the late 1960s.
Artists created charged works by juxtaposing disparate images sourced largely from popular media, such
as Hannah Höch's 1930
photomontage Untitled (Large Hand Over Woman's Head), a work of layered images from magazines that speaks to the representation of women in popular culture, and Kurt Schwitters» Mz 426 Figures (1922), an assemblage of discarded newspaper and printed detritus, which evokes the urban environment in which he lived.
The jarring scene — American soldiers humiliating local Iraqi's for stealing — captured happenstance by two Norwegian journalists in Iraq serves
as the back story to Iranian artist Reza Aramesh's first solo exhibition of
photomontages and sculpture (all 2015) at the gallery.
Hammond also produces black - and - white
photomontages that draw on elements of Russian Constructivism and Dada, which she reworks digitally, collaging, retouching, and developing shadow and tone before converting the digital file into a negative and printing the resulting image in the darkroom
as a gelatin silver photograph.
Without ever ceasing to be a painter, Fernand Léger contributes to realms
as varied
as book illustration, theatre sets, mural painting, experimental cinema and
photomontage.
Other artistic disciplines explored by feminists include photography (Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Nan Goldin),
Photomontage (Anita Steckel), installation art (Judy Chicago),
as well
as design - especially graphic art (Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Barbara Kruger), and word art (Jenny Holzer).
In her new paintings and
photomontages, the artist deploys Artemisia Gentileschi's iconic work, Judith Slaying Holofernes,
as an image of violence inherent in art and in life.
Extending the idea of playfulness, Brătescu is fascinated by the disruptive potential of magnets,
as illustrated in her landmark piece, «Magnets in the City» (1974), a
photomontage with an accompanying text describing the ways in which magnets of various sizes, placed outside and within the city limits, unleash their hazardous energies, generating chaos while simultaneously reminding people of their own volition and power to act.
Its always hard to precisely pin down and explain Baldessari's art,
as he has been tirelessly trying to keep his portfolio
as versatile
as possible, including
photomontage, artist's books, prints, paintings, film, performance and installation.
Miriam Schapiro's femmages represent all the activities that were traditionally associated with women,
as sewing, cooking, cutting etc. translated to the activities associated with art,
as collage,
photomontage, etc..
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.
Her work brings to mind the procedures of
photomontage or film editing, with the cut being used
as a frame that marks the essential.
Starting with early works influenced by her time working in the fashion industry, it includes key
photomontages such
as High Finance (1923) which critiques the relationship between bankers and the army at the height of the economic crisis in Europe.
the theory of semiotics, text and image
as political tools in the work of Jacob Riis, the FSA, «Have you Seen Their Faces», and «Let Us Now Praise Famous Men», captions and photographs in the picture magazine and weekly tabloid, Pat Ward Williams's handwritten retellings, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan's photo essay parody, Bill Owen, Gay Block, and Clarissa Sligh's stories of suburbia and family, photographs that counter the voice of authority, posters by the Guerrilla Girls, installations by Carrie Mae Weems and Glenn Ligon, instructional text in the work of Erwin Wurm, Gillian Wearing, Tony Oursler, and the spoken word, pictures of words, appropriation and
photomontage, Adbusters, The Billboard Liberation Front and cultural jamming, and more...
As a central figure in the 1970s punk rock and hallucinogenic counter culture, Tomaselli began making visually dynamic and conceptually loaded collages, photomontages, and paintings, eventually developing a reputation for his inclusion of pharmaceuticals, cannabis leaves, and other mind - altering substances suspended in resin as elements within collaged and painted image
As a central figure in the 1970s punk rock and hallucinogenic counter culture, Tomaselli began making visually dynamic and conceptually loaded collages,
photomontages, and paintings, eventually developing a reputation for his inclusion of pharmaceuticals, cannabis leaves, and other mind - altering substances suspended in resin
as elements within collaged and painted image
as elements within collaged and painted images.
Her
photomontages are included in
As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics and Linder also exhibited at IMMA's Primal Architecture 2014.