A photomontage is the process where one takes a photograph
and cuts it up, combining it with other photos and or text to create a new
surreal looking work. This is all thanks to the invention of the camera.
The Dadaists created quite a few different photomontages;
they successfully made them interesting and surreal. Ironically the Dadaists
were an anti-art movement. This anti-art is an example of the evolving art
life, this is when the popular becomes disliked and a new opposite style
emerges. The Dadaist were rebels in their own sense going against the
establishment and the military. Its hard to explain but this is what can be
seen in the images above. Within chaos one can find emotion, a meaning through
a lock of meaning. The idea of having that typical ‘grid work’ art is broken
completely. When we look at their artworks se see the use of dull colours, this
may have been a coincidence (using only what was available at the time) but it
may have been used as a reflection on the dullness of life at the time.
Image 3
With today’s modern software’s photomontages have changed
dramatically. Although some artists still choose to keep that cut out scrapbook
style, we find more digital versions of these collages out there. In the
digital world it became possible to combine images with other unrelated images
in a more natural looking way. Therefore once looking at subject matter (look
at image 3) one can see that the coliseum and the sphinx are put into a
different surreal location, but they are digitally blended in.
Technology has brought us a long way in the art world. The
impossible has become possible. But the creativity although always growing will
never be lost. Artists will keep looking back into history for inspiration to
furthermore develop a new style or to bring an old one back to life.
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