MPC 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: John Heartfield, Photomontage, Agitprop
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Adolphe the superman swallows gold and spouts. 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 germany. Hi used the photomontage technique to make political satire art, anti-nazi critique. 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". Deutschlands (cut with the kitchen knife dada through the last. Weimar beer belly cultural epoch of germany),1919, photomontage:1919 65. They gather it and showed it, then mocked it. Bayer was a bauhaus artist, hitler was not friendly to the.
