Montage: Activity 1

Activity 1: Blog Entry

• Briefly discuss why you think painters of the Victorian period might have criticized these early photomontages and why the pictures were popular with the general public. (This technique of piecing together separate images to create one picture is again very popular with both artists and the media). 
• What two reasons can you think of for this revival of an old technique? 

Painters in the victorian times probably would have criticized these techniques because they were untraditional, painting is very much an art that has a direct focus and not all over the place like the images that are pieced together. The images would appeal to the general public because they were something unexpected and interesting, not seen anywhere else.  I can assume that this technique is in revival because it is very interesting to look at, it gives a very different message than what is originally seen in the image. It could also be revived because it is fun for the artist to take an image that already exists and create something totally new and interesting with it. It is taking an art that is made to capture a moment and twist that moment into new art. It is truly a beautiful technique.