Art: Montage

For the past few lessons of art, we have focused on "Montages", specifically some of Hannah Hoch's works.  A montage is an act of editing, selecting, altering and putting together pieces of images to form a whole image. It was at 1915 that the form of photomontage was invented; used by the "Dadaist" a movement to a negative reaction towards WW1 at the time. Thereafter the method was used by the now-famous artists such as Hannah Hoch, creating a whole wide range of feelings through combining vast ideas. A similar method is widely used in this era, one that is probably familiar to most people. Photoshopping uses the same principle as a photomontage adding many different images that could result in a completely different look before the editing has started.  Hannah Hoch began to experiment with photomontage in the year of 1918. She has worked for Ullstein Verlag; designing knitting as well as embroidery patterns that were inspired by her photomontage work of the time. She sustained her work with photomontages for almost the rest of her life, even after she broke from the Berlin Dadaists.