Photo Montage

"Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that a final image may appear as a seamless photographic print." (wikipedia)

Photomontage techniques are used in different mediums; often to make a political statement and often by artists to just create art. 

My initial image is just playing with images and has no meaning behind it rather than a bit of fun. My second image is more of a statement; showing images in the forefront of products using palm oil shaped like trees..... protesting against the use of palm oil in products, as it causes rainforests to be cut down.  

Advertising, Semiology and Rhetoric of the Image

Advertising is everywhere you look from your mobile phone, the bus, your magazine, the television, the radio and so on and on and on........ We are bombarded with it from the moment we wake up. The majority of advertising is done through image. Imagery is a major player in how companies get their message across and they use it in many ways and by many means!! Getting you to subscribe to them, buy their products, think you must, need, have something. Below are my notes on the subject, along with my notes on semiology, the article by Victor Burgin and some advertising imagery that use different methods to get their point across. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Modern Scandinavian Design Timeline

My timeline sees the growth of Scandinavian design from it's roots in the individual five Nordic countries from around 1920 to its international presence in today's world. Scandinavian design is thought of as organic, simple, beautiful, sleek, functional and more often than not affordable. 

My timeline is definitely not complete but touches on key events and happens that has brought on the growth of Scandinavian Design. 

Fanzines

                           Fan = Fanatic                      Zines = magazines

Fanzine's are small amateur magazines that are produced by fans of something... be it a sports club, non-mainstream band, interest club, to get a certain message across and so on. They tend to be done on a low budget and can be quite makeshift in appearance and are often photocopied for distribution. They quite often use imagery from other sources and 'cut and paste' these with their own imagery and text. Fanzines can be dated back to at least the 1920's, but were quite prevalent in the late 1970's and 1980's during the punk era. Below are some images of some Fanzines across the years.

Below is a fanzine I produced with other fashion and textile students. It is almost like a mood-book offering ideas and inspiration.

Anti-Art

Anti-art is a loosely used term applied to an array of concepts and attitudes that reject prior definitions of art and question art in general. Somewhat paradoxically, anti-art tends to conduct this questioning and rejection from the vantage point of art. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-art)

Dada

The Dada movement was the first Anti-Art movement. It was triggered by the 1st World War in 1914, as a reaction to the atrocities of the war. It started in the neutral country of Switzerland, where political radicals, dissidents and avant garde artists and writers sought refuge. Hugo Ball and Emmy Hemmings begun a club called Cabaret Voltaire in 1916, it was the start of the movement that spread internationally to Paris, Cologne, Hannover, Berlin and New York. The war acted as a catalyst of population movement by people fleeing the war. 

Dada artists used techniques such as collage, photomontage, assemblage and frottage. Some of the most influential artists are Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoch, Kurt Schwitters and Raoul Hausmann. Below I have included some images by these artists as well as my notes on the subject.

Marcel Duchamp 

Hannah Hoch

Kurt Schwitters

Raoul Hausmann

 

 

 

Dadaism went on to influence other art movements including Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism.