This week i have been asked to write a blog post on a Dada artist.
Hoch was a German artist born in 1889, and worked with photo montage, a type of collage that uses images she used are actual photographs or reproductions that she got from newspapers, magazines and posters. She was an big Inspiration to other Dada artists, as well as surrealist artists and, of course, female artists at the time and still today.
Her work was much more than just a random collage, her work challenged the status of woman in the social world, and promoted the idea of a "New Woman" in her time.
A great example of this is the image above " Hannah Hoch's Das Schone Madchen/beautiful girl" It shows stigma between cars and woman, this is shown with the BMW logo. It has a woman's figure to highlight the body standards of woman, at the time, as well as the hair. The light bulb says the modern woman is a bright thinker. It is a brilliant piece of work, and to me, a huge inspiration.
Another piece of work from her that i love is:
This photomontage is of Sir John Herschel, a 19th century chemist and astronomer. His head is cut in half and behind it you can see a shot gun aimed at the other figures ( a bankers) head. It shows the link between military and the bankers who finance them. Very clever.
I started looking at Hannah Hoch last year and i absolutely love her work. I actually made a Hannah Hoch tribute collage that i exhibited with my work twice.
Hannah Hoch
Hoch was a German artist born in 1889, and worked with photo montage, a type of collage that uses images she used are actual photographs or reproductions that she got from newspapers, magazines and posters. She was an big Inspiration to other Dada artists, as well as surrealist artists and, of course, female artists at the time and still today.
Her work was much more than just a random collage, her work challenged the status of woman in the social world, and promoted the idea of a "New Woman" in her time.
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| Hannah Hoch's Das Schone Madchen/beautiful girl |
A great example of this is the image above " Hannah Hoch's Das Schone Madchen/beautiful girl" It shows stigma between cars and woman, this is shown with the BMW logo. It has a woman's figure to highlight the body standards of woman, at the time, as well as the hair. The light bulb says the modern woman is a bright thinker. It is a brilliant piece of work, and to me, a huge inspiration.
Another piece of work from her that i love is:
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| High Finance (1923) |
I started looking at Hannah Hoch last year and i absolutely love her work. I actually made a Hannah Hoch tribute collage that i exhibited with my work twice.
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| My tribute |
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