Hannah hoch
Hannah Hoch uses paper to create collages. She gets images from newspapers, journals, magazines and combines different areas of these images to produce original outcomes. Most pieces of art work she creates are made to be humorous or are a response to certain events that have occurred in history.
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Hannah Hoch was one of a minority of female Dadaist artists so when she tried to convey the idea of equality for women and Hans Ritcher dismissed her for her work it generated her motivation to continue fighting for what she believed in and continue to spread the message. Like Dadaists she liked to work incorporate humour, chaos, nonsense and craziness in her work. I like the way she focuses on events in history and uses her intelligence to create a humourous but accurate interpretation of it. When I look at her work I feel like she has thought really carefully and has done things certain ways to prove a point rather than stereotypically create random images that don't seem to make sense. I don't understand all of her work because most of it is based on events that I'm not fully educated on but I think her work is aimed at a middle aged and older audience and people that age can relate to the work she produces, because the events she's basing her art work on occurred during their life time or because they have the knowledge to know what her art is about and the message she's trying to get acorss. Despite some of the weird faces and images she creates I personally feel that her work has a very serious tone to it, maybe because she has a certain interest or strong opinion towards some of the things she addresses like women not being treated equally in the past. After working in the style of Hannah Hoch and using her in my project I feel like I can address events in history through art without showing a serious approach but still emphasising the main point across of what the image is about and it's relevance.
In response to her work I chose to cut out human faces, body parts from magazines and objects. I then experimented and made images that related to my decades: for example for 1970 the decade where Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister (1979) I cut out pictures of male and female faces from magazines and stuck them on the body of the opposite gender to put emphasis on how a man and a woman are just as equal as each other.
I also cut out pictures of people and objects from a magazine and stuck it on a background that had a pattern full of bright colours on it so the images stood out. This represents people that are different, being together and treated equally regardless of who they are. It is in the style of Hannah Hoch and is based on the decade 1990 when Mandela was released and eventually got rid of the racism in South Africa which saw black and white people segregated from each other. I chose to use cuttings out of magazines because the material is better quality than newspaper, the image is clearer and brighter and it is a flat material.