What is a photomontage?
It is a collage constructed from photographs. The technique has been used to make political statements and became well known in the early 20th century, mainly WW1 and WW2.
Dadaism was an art movement which was formed during the first world war in zurich in negative reaction to the horrors of the war. “The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature”.- Raoul Hausmann.
Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky
