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power_point_unit_2_done.pptxUntold Stories
Misty Clark
Megan Moore
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For over thirty years, Scott Mutter employed classic photomontage techniques to create a world of his own – a more perfect world. The hallmark of Mutter’s remarkable imagery is the distinct sense that the elements of each picture belong together, even though the combination may violate the laws of physics. These photographs, which Scott calls “Surrational Images,” have a poetic quality that invites highly personal interpretations. They are provocative as well as evocative. (1944-2008) He is my favoorite artist therefore I carry two pictures of his art on my wall.
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Photomontage is a kind of art that is composed primarily of photographs or fragments of photographs in order to direct the viewer's mind toward specific connections.
Hannah Höch (German, 1889-1978). Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919-1920.
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/hannah-hoch-cut-with-the-dada-kitchen-knife-through-the-last-weimar-beer-belly-cultural-epoch-in-germany
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I thought I was mostly looking at photography on this site but it seems that my eyes were fooled more then a few times. I personally like photomontages, it is a form of artistic expression. It is not painting, or drawing, or sculpting
Personally, I like seeing this type of art because it makes my mind think about the pictures that are created with the blend in physical impossibilities or improbabilities so seamlessly into a real photograph that you aren't entirely aware of the discrepancy at first...or second...look. I would like to learn the difference between my thoughts and the artists thoughts when viewing these different artists.
Escalator
http://www.photographymuseum.com/mutter/escalator.html
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Scott Mutter Poster/Art Print..Subway House Photo Montage/1984/Unpublished Works
I like this piece of art as you can see like there is a theatre in the windows of this home.
I found this piece of art to be a very interesting piece as a plain view looks like a pond with shooting spouts, and as you look closer you can see vehicles in the streets and it looks as if the buildings were froze over. Artist Scott Mutter, Square Fountain
Square-Fountain-1976
http://www.scottmutter.com/
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Eagle Church
Artist Scott Mutter- when you look at this piece of art you are pictured with the Eagle as well as a Church, its idea of flying over the Church by the earth’s land you see below. Scott Mutter stated "This picture is my most baroque, in the way it fills the frame with imagery and in its nonlinear thrust. I see its pull as a desire for the spirit to wrench itself free from matter..."
http://www.photographymuseum.com/mutter/eagle.html
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The Lovers
(1936)
One of Man Ray's most memorable paintings. It includes a depiction of the lips of his departed lover, floating in the sky above the Paris Observatory. The nude is lying on her side on a sofa underneath the painting, with a chessboard at her feet. Observatory Time hints at what the woman might be dreaming: a nightmare or an erotic fantasy. The chessboard appears in many of the artist's works Man Ray loved playing chess. And Man Ray considered a grid of squares, "the basis for all art.
http://www.manray.net/observatory-time-the-lovers.jsp
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1992 Artist Jerry Uelsmann Art work Nude In Waterfall, From this piece of art I get that there is piece of freedom from within, by her laying at piece in the wilderness.
Jerry UELSMANN, Nude in Waterfall, 1992
http://www.gadcollection.com/32_3jerry-uelsmann/638_jerry-uelsmann-nude-in-waterfall-1992.html
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Journey Into The Night 2006 Jerry Uelsmann
As I chose this as my last slide I feel this is a new beginning of something that is welcomed into this life. I feel that the human hands symbolize the protection and nurturing and being there is an egg I feel that it symbolizes new life.
This photograph was taken by Jerry Uelsmann in 2006, he named his art work 'Journey into Night.' This photo is a birds nest and egg in the palm of someone's hands. The interesting this about this piece is that the hands look like they're shooting out of the ground also the bottom of the hands are tree trunks. I think that the relationship between the photo and photographer is pride, because the photo looks like the hands are holding something up to represent that Uelsmann has achieved many awards and trophies throughout his photography career. This photograph has been manipulated because he's made the hands the main subject and merged the tree trunk into the bottom of the hands. http://emmamp15.weebly.com/jerry-uelsmann.html
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Background of Photomontage
The World’s First Photomontage
“Fading Away”
1858 Henry Peach Robinson
http://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/29/the-wonderful-world-of-early-photography/
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Oscar Gustave Rejlander – Two Ways of Life, 1857, the first example of photo montage in the Victorian era.
Artists in the Victorian era (19thcentury) experimented with direct contact printing of objects placed on photographic plates, double exposures, and composite pictures made by darkroom masking techniques.
http://www.widewalls.ch/photomontage-art/
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During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lissitzky experimented with latest media such as typography, photography and photomontage.
Man Ray created photographs that operated in the gap between art and life. he reinvented ‘solarization’, a photographic process that records images on the negative reversing dark with light and vice versa. He also championed the techniques ‘shadowgraph’, a process of camera-less image-making using light sensitive paper.
Left: El Lissitzky’s double exposure from 1924, via pinterest.com / Right: Man Ray – Gjon Mili, via theredlist.com
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nu-real : fantastic photomontage and its possible influences, 1857 — 2008.
Early Photomontage from 1893
nu-real seeks to be preliminary critical survey that traces a possible alternate history of photomontage and fantastic photography, and the possible influences upon it. It is not about the classic propagandist photomontage that juxtaposed elements in the manner of modernist graphic design. It only briefly touches on the surrealist photographers of the same period.
http://www.d-log.info/timeline/index.html
horsesthink.wordpress.com
http://billwest.com/nu-real-a-timeline-of-fantastic-photomontage-and-its-possible-influences/
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A point of visual literacy arises when either a medium presents us with something we have not seen before or assigns something a special signification it does not usually have outside the medium. Even if something meets one of those conditions, it may not be codified. Codification narrows interpretation, in that it picks out one from among several significations that we could think of assigning to a feature.
Eugene Atget: Avenue des Gobelins (before 1926) George Eastman House Collection
https://courses.washington.edu/hypertxt/cgi-bin/book/pmontage/kindsofpm.html
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Dada had always been a political movement, rejecting the prevailing mindset of patriotism and sacrifice. Dada questioned the very notion of meaning and how we, as humans, understand our world. Words and images can be manipulated and innocent people can be persuaded to take on the most outrageous enterprises, such as a Total War. This “artful” practice did not go unnoticed by German artists who responded with the photomontage.
DADA Photomontage
Austrian, 1886–1971 Der Kunstreporter (The Art Critic), 1919–1920
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/techniques/
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