Raoul Hausmann

Raoul Hausmann is an Austrian artist who focused in the Dada era. He often focuses on photographic collages. he was born in 1886. He was a photomonteur, painter, fashion designer, poet, pamphleteer, publisher, and partner of Hannah Hoch. Everything he did was done with enthusiasm and an often angry gallows humour.
His work consists of collage and mixed media which i find interesting because of the random designs. his work is not colourful, yet it is easy to connect with his audience through them.

Varvara Stepanova

Varvara Stepanova was a painter and the graphic artist. Her works were exhibited at the largest exhibitions of  avant guarde in Russia. She used a list of fabrics, setting of books and magazines, collages and compositions. Her works are distinctive and original because of their intriguing patterns and variety. Her series of unexpected graphic works "Jazz-band" is most popular. Her work is very unique and distinctive, and she uses bright, bold colours to catch the eye of her viewers.

Man Ray

Man Ray was an American modernist artist who spent most of his carrer in Paris. He contributed to the Dada era and often used a mixed variety of media. He considered himself a painter. His reputation has grown, but his work was not appreciated in his lifetime.
his work is extremely unique and often focus on people. His images are often very surreal and odd, but tis intrigues the eye. They often feature a black and white colour scheme. I think this makes his work more recognizable.

Dave mckean

David McKean was born 29 December 1963 and is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician.

His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art and sculpture. After a trip to New York in 1986 during which he failed to find work as a comics artist, McKean met writer Neil Gaiman, and the pair collaborated on a short graphic novel of disturbing childhood memories. In 1989, he illustrated the Batman graphic novel, Arkham Asylum. He also illustrated many childrens books.

I think that his work is very unique as the images are unpredictable and sometimes it is hard to tell what is actually in the image or what McKean is trying to tell us. His images are surreal and charasmatic  and more often than not present the faces of people. I think that each of his images are supposed to bring a story to the viewers mind, and even though they are unclear it is very interesting to try and pick McKean’s pieces apart.

Peter Blake

Sir Peter Thomas Blake was born on the 25th June 1932. He is an English pop artist and was also knighted three years ago. He has produced collage, sculpture, engraving and printmaking, commercial art and various album covers, i.e. The Beatles. Blake studied at Gravesend School of Art before being accepted into the Royal College of Art in London. He was influenced by American realist artists.
‘On the Balcony ‘ is an early work and still stands as one of the iconic pieces of British Pop Art, showing Blake's interest in images from pop culture with fine art. It appears to be a collage but is in fact painted. It is inspired by other paintings and features other artists work.

I think that Blake’s work is bright and eye catching which helps the viewer to recognise his work. It is simplistic yet unique as it has little detail however a lot of his pieces relate to music and have a vintage feel to them which makes each piece more intriguing.

Robert Rauschenberg

•He was an American painted and a graphic artist who was well known for his ‘combines’ of the 1960’s. This was a combination of both painting and sculpture but sometimes he would also work with photography. He created the ‘black painting’ which incorporated little bits of newspaper into his work. Eventually he began using different types of material i.e. wood and nails…

I think the fact that Rauschenberg incorporates different materials is interesting and original. This shows that different media can be put into images and it wont look messy or odd, it actually makes the images more colourful and fun.

hannah hoch

•Hannah Höch was born on November 1, 1889 and was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Women were used as a central theme in her work. Her latest piece combines images from news papers.

Her work is very randomised and irregular, however I particularly like this aspect and it leaves the images to the viewers mind so that they can make their own assumption about the art. Her photomontages do not seem to use bright colours, but the images themselves are eye catching and oddly positioned/put together making the images surreal.

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