Dada. Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany. Hannah Höch. Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany (Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser durch die letzte Weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands)]. 1919-1920. Max Ernst. Text from Werner Spies, introduction to "Max Ernst: A Retrospective" "The scandals associated with the name of Max Ernst during the early post-war period have become legendary. They were sparked off by radical actions designed to épater les bourgeois to the utmost.
Yet the artist's involvement in this type of activity was sporadic and temporary. He once explained why this was so during a visit he and I made in 1967 to the great Dada retrospective in Paris. Being a Dadaist by profession, he said, was a contradiction in terms. There was no such thing as an unchanging state of revolution. And to put the spirit of Dada on exhibition, he continued, was no more than a weak illustration, like trying to capture the violence of an explosion by presenting the shrapnel. "The positive term 'building' is appropriate in this connection, although it may seem an extraordinary paradox. "Let us try to define a few of the constants of this pictorial syntax. ART IN REVIEW; 'Surrealist Collage'
Not entirely without justification, Surrealism is often derided as a bogus religion. But the Surrealistic impulse is still very much alive in contemporary art, and there's a good reason: whether or not it reveals mystic truths, the free play with disjunctive, contradictory and paradoxical images, materials and forms has a way of relaxing conventional restrictions on creative imagination. It's useful to bring this more pragmatic notion of Surrealism to this fine show of small neatly made collages from the movement's early years.
The 14-artist exhibition abounds in the clichés that help give Surrealism its bad name -- especially images of women stripped bare, dismembered and otherwise abnegated -- but it is also full of zany poetry that can make you laugh while your mind spins. In these, as well as in works by Georges Hugnet and Max Bucaille, the artist seems less a priest of Freudian dogma than a giddy psychic switchboard operator. Interview: Eduardo Recife (from MisprintedType) Eduardo Recife was a great inspiration source for me when I first started doing graphics. In my opinion he started something new when he published the first MisprintedType website. You see a lot of his font used in designs out there in the world. That's why I was very pleased to do an interview with him. And it goes like this: Visit MisprintedType.com for loads of illustrations, drawings and free stuff like fonts and brushes. 1.
Back in 1997 I started to create my own typefaces for my personal use. 2. Its so hard to speak about inspiration. 3. I usually have an idea/concept in mind. 4. I have an Imac 24". 5. Im actually working more as an illustrator these days.... 6. Well, I usually think its the opposite. 7. Ffffound.com so many things to see all day. 8. Adobe Caslon, New Baskerville and Requiem. 9. Dont give up! An Interview with Collage and Typography Maker, Eduardo Recife. Follow @Scene360: Misprinted type 4.0_art, design and type (1998-2011) Eduardo Recife. Agitated Images. John Heartfield was a pioneer of modern photomontage. Working in Germany and Czechoslovakia between the two world wars, he developed a unique method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. At a time of great uncertainty, Heartfield's agitated images forecasted and reflected the chaos Germany experienced in the 1920s and '30s as it slipped toward social and political catastrophe.
In this climate, communists, Nazis, and other partisans clashed in the press, at the ballot box, and on the streets. The impact of Heartfield's images was so great that they helped transform photomontage into a powerful form of mass communication. Heartfield devised photo-based symbols for the Communist Party of Germany, allowing the organization to compete with the Nazis' swastika. His images of clenched fists, open palms, and raised arms all implied bold action and determination. The Collection | Photomontage. Technique by which a composite photographic image is formed by combining images from separate photographic sources.
The term was coined by Berlin Dadaists c. 1918 and was employed by artists such as George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Höch for images often composed from mass-produced sources such as newspapers and magazines. Photomontages are made using photographic negatives or positives. Negative montages are produced in the darkroom by, for example, sandwiching negatives in an enlarger or masking sections of photographic paper. Positive montages are usually made by combining photographic prints or reproductions. Both approaches and endless variants, such as photographing constructed objects, were used by a specialist such as John Heartfield. A wide range of photomontage-type work was produced in the 19th century. Dadaist photomontage was related to, but distinct from, earlier Cubist, Futurist and Suprematist collage. David Evans From Grove Art Online top. Www.PeterKennard.com.
Fantastic photomontage and its possible influences, 1857 - 2007 : a timeline. DADA - Introduction. "Everybody can Dada" —Dada-Fair, Berlin, poster, 1919 Dada blasted onto the scene in 1916 with ear-splitting enthusiasm: rowdy, brazen, irreverent, and assaulting. Its sounds were clamorous, its visions were shocking, and its language was explosive. Yet Dada was not aimless anarchy. Rather, the artists were responding to the violence and trauma of World War I—and to the shock of modernity more generally—by developing shock tactics of their own. The outrageous provocations of the Dada movement have prompted many to define Dada as "anti-art"—a term that the dadaists themselves used. Dada emerged in Zurich, a city whose neutrality provided a safe haven for European artists who were opposed to the war. A selection of graphic projects - Kerry Ropper. PAUL BURGESS - COLLAGE. Paul Burgess is a freelance illustrator, designer, photographer, artist and writer.
He lives and works in St Leonards-On-Sea. Paul Burgess is Course Leader for BA(Hons)/MDes Illustration at the University of Brighton. Link here: He has been on the judging panel for 'Images' / Association of Illustrators, in 2001 and 2005. Burgess has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in both this country and abroad. Since graduating from Camberwell School of Art in 1984 and the Royal College of Art in 1986, Paul Burgess has worked as a freelance illustrator for over 20 years. In 1994 Burgess started a six year photography project with Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, to photograph and document live gigs, video shoots, artwork, etc. Paul Burgess is the author of the book 'Satellite: Sex Pistols Graphic Design and Memorabilia' (Abstract Sounds Publishing 1999) and has contributed regularly to various music and design publications. REFLEKTORIUM. M A R I O W A G N E R.
DADA-Art-photomontage. William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography | Thematic Essay. A young English gentleman on his honeymoon sat sketching by the shore of Lake Como early in October 1833, one eye pressed close to a camera lucida. With this simple draftsman's aid, consisting of an adjustable metal arm fastened at one end to the artist's sketchbook or drawing board and supporting a glass prism at the other, the young man saw a refracted image of the Italian landscape superimposed as if by magic on the pages of his sketchbook.
It seemed a simple task to trace the features of the village buildings, lake, and distant mountains with his pencil. But alas, it only seemed simple, he later recalled, "for when the eye was removed from the prism—in which all looked beautiful—I found that the faithless pencil had only left traces on the paper melancholy to behold. " The would-be artist was William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877). A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a recently elected Liberal member of Parliament in the House of Commons, Talbot was a true polymath.