Tuesday 11 June 2013
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Following the steps in this tutorial to help improve Photoshop manipulation skills
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What is photomontage?
A photomontage is when you combine two or more images
together to create a single picture. Photomontages are usually surreal and are
created by cutting and sticking the images or by using software such as
Photoshop.
Photomontages where first created to challenge the popular
painting as a new art form. The art movement Dadaism was important in making
photomontages modern. It was the Dadaists that first coined the phrase
“photomontage” in 1919. The dada movement was created to protest the First
World War. Dadaists believed that logic and structure is what led people to
all-out war. So in their artwork they aimed to promote a sense of chaos and
disorder. Such as in this photomontage by Hannah Hoch:
As you can see this image is clearly
disorganised and messy. You can see the techniques she must have used because
this art piece was made in 1919, so it was made by hand by cutting and sticking
various images together.
Modern technology has made making photomontages easier. It
is now possible to combine two or more images into a composite image using
software such as Photoshop.
A photomontage
created in
Photoshop. 
image by Ben Goossens.
Ben Goossens creates photomontages in a style very similar
to the work of Dadaists.
His work is often dark, nightmarish and
surreal.
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