Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany Dr. Karen Barber
There they had encountered military mementos in the form of lithographs depicting soldiers in uniform with photographed heads pasted on. This discovery, and the desire to rethink the possibilities of picture-making, prompted them to start making photomontages on their return to Berlin.
This ties well with Sergei Eisenstein's theory on montage, the juxtaposition of two opposing visuals in combination means to create something with a whole new interpretation. Collage or photomontage allows taking an image of its own context when combined with other pictures, the artist reinterprets the images to a whole new meaning.
... in the case of John Heartfield and Rudolf Schlichter’s effigy of a German officer with a pig’s head, hanging directly from it.
The Dadaists are daring and avant-garde as a person and show their political agenda in their work. This installation effigy of a German soldier is critical of German militarism and German bourgeois culture. This work was meant to be taken as a joke as said by Schlichter in avoid being charged and arrested for slandering the military.
The Berlin Dadaists embraced a new form of political propaganda in the medium of photomontage
I have created works digitally on Photoshop of photomontage on the topic of the Cold War each poster forms its political propaganda civil rights, the launching of Sputnik, communism on the rise, and America's need for human capital. The more I learn about history everything is tied to each other, for this politics and art are connected with each other.
“John Heartfield/Rudolf Schlichter. Prussian Archangel. 1920 | MoMA.” John Heartfield/Rudolf Schlichter. Prussian Archangel. 1920, MoMA, www.moma.org/audio/playlist/198/2631. Accessed 7 Apr. 2024.
Frida Kahlo, Arbol de la Esperanza (Tree of Hope), 1946
Wangechi Mutu, Forbidden Fruit Picker, 2015
Enduringly, collage
My collage work isn't the exact style of all the artists; they have given inspiration to my idea. My collage style remains close to Frida Kahlos in the exploration of self-expression. From Wangechi Mutu's work, I took the essence of fantastical transcendence and non-logical expression.
In this collage piece, the marble statue woman is gazing up beside her window patiently, waiting for her transcendence. She is aware it will happen and remains humble despite the atrocities of conflicts.
The idea of transcending derives from a digital collage created of wanting life to improve and be better. The painting of the Virgin Mary symbolizes purity, as a worldly symbol for every daughter to be well-behaved. To the right side is a statue of a burning saint depicting parents who raise their children properly as they restrict their daughter from being tainted of her purity. They are destroying their child in over-protection therefore the saint statue's head is burning. The process of transcending will take time as shown by the staircases slowly building into place.
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