Research on artist reference

Hannah Hoch

• Known for her incisively political collage and photomontage works, Dada artist Hannah Höch appropriated and rearranged images and text from the mass media to critique the failings of the Weimar German Government. Höch drew inspiration from the collage work of Pablo Picasso and fellow Dada exponent Kurt Schwitters, and her own compositions share with those artists a similarly dynamic and layered style. Höch preferred metaphoric imagery to the more direct, text-based confrontational approach of her contemporary John Heartfield, whose work she found “tendentious.” She rejected the German government, but often focused her criticism more narrowly on gender issues, and is recognized as a pioneering feminist artist for works such as Das schöne Mädchen (The Beautiful Girl), (1920), an evocative visual reaction to the birth of industrial advertising and ideals of beauty it furthered. Höch was, for a period of time, the partner of Dada artist Raoul Haussman.

 

One of Hannah Hoch’s most famous work, made from cuts out from newspaper.

Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919. Hannah Hoch.

Another famous work, with a mix medium approach. Materials used includes metallic foil and printed paper.

Indian Dancer: From an Ethnographic Museum 1930. Hannah Hoch.

DADA

• A movement originating in Zurich in 1916 as a reaction both to the chaos of Western society in the wake of World War I and to bourgeois society, which was seen as having produced the war. It is characterized by the rejection of old forms of artmaking in favor of an anti-art that asserts art’s irrelevance and explores new forms of creation. Dadaists are usually divided into two camps: those creating from anger and frustration and those embracing the absurd. Prominent adherents include Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp, both of whom sought in their work to destabilize artistic dogmas, particularly traditional formal strategies and concepts of artistic meaning. From Zurich, Dada spread across Europe—most notably the German cities of Berlin, Cologne, and Hannover—and eventually into the United States, particularly New York City. Its emphasis on the bizarre had a major influence on Surrealism, founded in 1924.

Russian Constructivism

• Russian Constructivism was a movement that was active from 1913 to the 1940s. It was a movement created by the Russian avant-garde, but quickly spread to the rest of the continent. Constructivist art is committed to complete abstraction with a devotion to modernity, where themes are often geometric, experimental and rarely emotional. Objective forms carrying universal meaning were far more suitable to the movement than subjective or individualistic forms. Constructivist themes are also quite minimal, where the artwork is broken down to its most basic elements. New media was often used in the creation of works, which helped to create a style of art that was orderly. An art of order was desirable at the time because it was just after WWI that the movement arose, which suggested a need for understanding, unity and peace. Famous artists of the Constructivist movement include Vladimir Tatlin, Kasimir Malevich, Alexandra Exter, Robert Adams, and El Lissitzky.

Lyubov Popova Textile Design (c. 1924)

Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova: Books!(1924): Book Posters, Stepanova

Reference

https://www.artsy.net/artist/hannah-hoch

Before Digital: Hannah Hoch and the Dada Montage

https://www.artsy.net/gene/dada

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/constructivism/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/115827021640025752/

 

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Inspiration

Woven photography by Seung Hoon Park

I think that the idea of weaving many photographs together to form a image is pretty interesting, I think it would be nice if this idea could be incorporated into typography.

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Paper cut typography by Bianca Chang

This piece of work is really neat and is done by repeatedly cutting papers and stacking them up together.

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Good Typography is Invisible by Craig Ward

The importance of subtlety in typography.

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Let’s have fun by Tango

I really like the idea of incorporating things from nature with their original form into words.

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Type the Sky by Lisa Rienermann

Photographic example on finding alphabets from surroundings.

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Backbreaker by Hijack your life

Awesome human typography involving a piece of cloth and wind.

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moji: 眠 on pick　(via kogumarecord)

Typography from 中国传媒大学学生毕业作品

The play of Chinese character to suit the meaning for the word is really fun and engaging.

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Word animals by Dan Fleming

This series of images is really well designed and innovative, they are simple yet convey the message well, not only can the audience know how the animal looks like but also know its name.

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Life with not be better in the Future by Octavio Pardo

This is an interactive typography work which make use of frozen ink and the presentation changes over time. I find that interactive typography which plays on both time and representation is very creative.

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Weave Type 2 by Zim and Zou

This is a handmade typography done using thread and paper, I find it really neat and pretty.

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So here I present part of my findings on typography, I find that there are really a lot of amazing typography out there, done with all kinds of method digital or traditional, and there are also some very innovative three dimensional typography created with mix media.

I usually do digital art, but for this project I hope to carry out both traditional and digital methods, and hopefully create something that is interactive.

Reference

Seung Hoon Park’s Woven Photography

New Hand-Cut Typography from Bianca Chang

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/424464333600176865/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/341710690455230702/

http://www.wordanimals.co.uk/

http://www.zimandzou.fr/70282/466717/gallery/weave-type-2

http://www.cruzine.com/2011/12/06/cool-typography/

http://dornob.com/found-built-typography-10-real-life-physical-fonts/