Friday, November 28, 2014

Hannah Hoch

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan/09/hannah-hoch-art-punk-whitechapel

While doing research on the grotesque I discovered Hannah Hoch, a female photo-montage artist who created works that were political comments and celebrated the New Woman.  For instance in one work  "Heads of State... she took a recent newspaper photograph of German president Friedrich Ebert and his defence minister Gustav Noske, pictured in their bathing trunks at a Baltic resort, and set their paunchy figures atop an iron-on embroidery pattern of a woman with a parasol, surrounded by flowers and butterflies."

In the article it describes her work as a surreal gtotesque.  I agree because she destroys the ideals of what art is, cutting up pictures , giving life to severed limbs and creating alien and deformed figures.  Though she is a two dimensional artist, I enjoy the way she explored composition using collage.

Here are some examples of her work:


Staatshaupter
Staatshäupter
 Staatshäupter (Heads of State), 1918-20

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