Hannah Hoch

 

Hannah hoch was one of the originators of photomontage. She was part of the dada movement which was an anti art movement which arose from the depression that world war one brought with it. She had studied glass work in a school of art but later started work for the red cross during the war.

 

Here we see one of her collage/ photomontages. This is one of the iconic dada works that were created. First we shall look at the characteristics of this particular work. We can see hand cut images placed over each other all having a common sepia feel colour scheme. There is also some typography which is present randomly thought this work. All for of order is missing and there is no focal point on this work unless you consider the entire image a focal point.

This has a very scrapbook feel to it which was later adapted by the punk art movement in this fanzines and typography which will then further influence grunge art and typography. These are all rebellious movements which emerged for the dada movement. Although this particular work shows disorder one can tell that there was some sort of strategy into the creation of this piece. 

 

Wikipedia (2014) [online] Hannah hoch available from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_H%C3%B6ch accessed on 18 january 2014