MPC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: John Heartfield, George Grosz, Christian Schad

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Photograms were a popular technique of the avant garde artists, like. Berlin dada: between the two wars: more political. He critiqued the powerful and corrupt bourgeois and military class. Adolphe the superman swallows gold and spouts trash", photomontage, 1935, Don"t worry, i"m a vegetarian , etc. , photo-montage, germany, Berlin dada was different they were living in the time when nazis were coming into power, so they were more political. Rise of nazi power, so they were critiquing it, with their satiric paintings and photo-montages. He anglasized his name in protest of what was happening in. Hi used the photomontage technique to make political satire art, He used common mass media material, from magazines, newspapers for his material. This is considered low art" in opposition to high art". Some consider this to be a precursor to warhol and pomo art in the use of common everyday materials and a critique of high art".

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