Exhibition Visits.
Today 25/11/13 we visited the Chen Man Exhibition in Leeds university
The photographer Was From China
And The techniques they used were lots of photomontage
How Would you describe there work? - Very Intriguing but also very surreal to the eye.
The piece i found most effective was named the Outer space Girl
it was an interesting photo as there was lots of grey scale around the ares of the face but had
a vibrant purple hair so it gave it more of an interesting look.
I chose this piece because firstly i simply just enjoy the simplicity of the photo-montage
Flannels Gallery, It's a cut up exhibition.
Today we visited its a cut up exhibition 7/10/13
Timeline.
1850s- Combination Printing -
Invented in scotland in the early 1950's combination printing was layering separate images on to a singular photographic print this was one of the earliest methods of photomontage. It was first know as "Double Printing" since only two negatives were used in the past usually to print in a well exposed sky above a landscape.
Edgar Allen Poe - 1856
The work of Edgar Allen Poe was published in the U.S in 1856 he began writing as not a fictional artist but as a critic. Poe's works, along with de Sade and the recovery of European folk/fairy tales, became the seeds of a sophisticated gothic imagination (there had been an unsophisticated pre-1848 literature of 'Penny Dreadfuls' and a brief British craze for horror stage shows) — which can be seen running through Steven-son's Hyde (1886), the 'L'Esprit Decadent' novels of the 1880s, James' The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ernest's collage novels, Love-craft, Mervyn Peake, Borges, Ray
Bradbury, Angela Carter, to Jan Svankmajer and beyond
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Surreal photomontage (La Nature) - 1893 surreal photomontage came about with the artists such as Edgar Allen Poe, Salvador Dali Punk and Dada the definition of surreal is something out of the ordinary an very strange such as the image below people seem to have the impression surrealism has been around since the early 1900's but actually formed in about 1892 but surreal photomontages were created in the french La Nature republished in scientific american but then in Wood bury in 1896.
Max Ernest's Collage's - in 1921 in paris the topic known as engraving composites The '1st Dada fair' was in 1920. Ernest's collages had their first exhibition, at the Galerie Au Sans Pareil in Paris (1921), under the auspices of Andre Breton. This period of his creative work culminated around 1924, when the surrealists issued the first Manifesto of Surrealism(1924).
Ernest's Work began to inspire others such as Joseph Cornell and Jindrich Styrksy who became amazing photomontage artists.
Albert Valentin ( Belgian Photomontage) 1929
Barely any surreal artists used the technique of photomontage
then came along the Albert Valentin who decided to explore-deeper into surrealism an how it was used also along with the likes of Paul Joosten. This piece on the right was show in the Avante Garden of art Belgium:1929.
Dora Maar 1936.
La simulateur - Simple Two Picture Photomontage
Created by Dora Maar. Upside down photograph
of a sewer interior with the boy pasted within it.
Toshiko Okanoue (Japan 1950's)
Toshiko was a fashion photography student who began cutting images from lifestyle magazines such as Vogue to create surreal photomontage pictures that she often had dreams about. Toshiko then had a show displaying there work but stopped photographing around about 1956
as she had lost all inspiration.
Rediscovering Photomontage (1967)
In 1967 Photomontage Seemed to have been rediscovered also known as cut outs an cut ups!
The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album (1967) featured on the front cover the "People We Like" photomontage by Peter Blake,bringing photomontage to millions.
The new and camp Pop Art revived the art of the collage and photomontage — although in its garishness it might be seen to feed more into the later manipulated photography of Gilbert & George and Pierre et Gilles, rather than into nu-real.
Reni Groebli ( Switzerland 1970's)
In the early nineteen seventies a Photographer from
switzerland created a series of 12 photomontage images
to create a book called dreams which is a top seller even
of today.
Sarah Moon ( 1983- La Petite Chaperon Rouge)
Fashion photographer Sarah Moon's Le Petit Chaperon Rouge
(1983) was published in Paris, using fantastic photography by Moon to
illustrate the classic dark fairy story by Perrault.
Megapixel Digital Camera's (1997 -1998)
The first affordable 1.2 megapixel camera became
available on the consumer market in 1997 where
you could easily snap photo's an then connect to
a p.c. via usb and transfer all shots to your p.c.
to view.
Cheap digital cameras & scanners meant new industries
could emerge — such as the simplistic photo collage involved
in digital family 'scrap booking', or the 'joke' face-morphing software.
This became a big revolution and more interestingly a new fine art
photoshop manipulated uncanny portraiture can be traced from David Lee's
Manimals series (1993) through to the portraits of Loretta Lux (2004).
Joseph Mills Loves of the Poets (2005)
Joseph Mills (1951-) apparently made his photomontages in the late 1980s;but has only recently published these as the photomontage collection Loves of the Poets (2005), followed by Anarch (2007).
Contextual Studies Photomontage Artist Research.
Peter Kennard - from the UK Peter is known to be one of the biggest photomontage artist of today
He began photomontage when being taught in college he firstly started by creating artwork for local papers then he progressed to communist artwork. The main focus within his work was to do with the government and war the things that really made you see the truth of the "Real World" however he made his work look sketchy so it was clearly visible that it was done by hand so he is not a perfectionist.
Below Are my Favorite pieces of work by him.
Tristen Tzara- Was a poet in france who believed that pulling words from a hat from his stage act created
a poem to create a poem out of random words it was a very hard task but clever skill to own but this
still was not original as it had done before.
The Reason for this not being original was that because this skill dated back towards the 17th century when
a man named caleb whitford was reading the local newspaper but he did not read it normally he read the column's across instead of reading down them then he got some funny creations and made what were called broadsheets.
Nothing is original. There is always a genealogy of ideas where you have picked something up from somewhere else but you are stealing to create a better. Art is theft - Pablo Picasso even the best know this is true. Transformation is flattery.
Banksy - Banksy is known to be one of the most notorious Graffiti artist's in the UK an still to this date no one knows his real identity so he is not convicted by the police all over the world he is known an his work is shown everywhere people even sell of his work for thousands of pounds. Most of his work usually tries to broadcast a message to people. Below I've found images of his work that i find Particularily interesting.
These Images All communicate a meaning i really like all of these because most of there are to do with
politics and everyday life like the 2nd one is about people following there dreams but not seeing it through due to society.
Scott Mutter (1944-2008)
The American photographer Scott Mutter was known for his photomontage work extremely well
His work mainly focused on creating odd scenes using lots of scenic background mainly containing
buildings people an everyday life objects. He made pictures so well you could not point out any
errors when analysing here is some of his work showcased below.
Possibly My Favorite Mutter image simply due to
how surreal it actually is i also think that this tries
to broadcast a message to people because some
people have a phobia of escalators an that the
water represents a sinking feeling to the person
who has the phobia an the man shown below
is so small because he feels he can not conquer
his fear of the escalator.
