Photomontage Hannah Hoch

Photo Collage/Montage

Dada, Hannah Höch

Dada

• Began in 1916 as a negative reaction against the horrors of WWI

• Rejected reason and logic• Prized nonsense, irrationality, and intuition• Rejected prevailing standards in art• Anti-war• Anti-Bourgeois

Hannah Höch

• Was one of the originators of photomontage• Left Art school to work for the Red Cross during WWI• Lived and worked in the Netherlands, and later in life

in Berlin• Höch was not officially allowed into the Dada group,

because although they preached women’s rights, they refused to consider her an equal.

• Despite this, she became one of the leading figures in Dada.

Hannah Höch

• Her works often criticize conventional ideas of beauty advertised in mass media

• She also used her work as a message to discourage sexism and racism, which were predominant during her lifetime

Assignment

• Höch created art that communicated a disgust with the current injustices of the time.

• Identify things in our society that you disagree with, find offensive, or that negatively affect a group of people or you personally.– Think about things you see in mass media (TV,

radio, commercials, video games, movies, etc.) or stories you’ve heard in the news.

Assignment Continued

• Using the ideas you brainstorm, design a photomontage that clearly communicates a message:– Either a message that discourages the negative

behavior you identified, OR that ENCOURAGES positive behavior as a solution to the problems you identified.

Assignment Continued

• If you cannot find the exact images you need in magazines, either:– Draw some of your own to include in the montage– Find another image that symbolizes the same idea

• For montages, composition is key:• Nothing smack in the middle– Include a background, middle ground, and foreground– Use small, medium, AND large images– Crop images in 1/3’s, not in half

Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic; Hannah Hoch; 1919; Dada;

Collage of Pasted Papers

Da Dandy; Hannah Hoch; 1919; Dada; Photomontage

Dompteuse (Tamer); Hannah Hoch; 1930; Dada; Photomontage with Collage Elements

Sea Serpent; Hannah Hoch; 1937; Dada; Photomontage

The Bride; Hannah Hoch; 1933; Dada; Photomontage with Collage Elements

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