Pallant House visit.

These images show pieces of work from a visit to Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. This visit was for us to gain information on how Civil Wars influenced artists at the time and the impact it had on civilians and surrounding land they lived on. I think that the exhibition was good because it displayed a good range of different styles and some of them had a very powerful meaning behind them.

Raoul Hausmann.

Raoul Hausmann born July 12th, 1886 was an Austrian writer and artist. He was one of the key of the Dada movement. He created many piece of different styles of work such as drawings, sculptures and photographs however he is know to be the creator of photomontages. A photomontage is where you bring together more than one photograph to create an illusion of an unreal subject. As well as photographs he also uses areas of collage and combines them all together. His pieces of work link to the theme of exquisite corpse because he creates unusual compositions and juxtaposed imagery. He was around when World War One was occurring which influenced his pieces and so of the images he uses are linked to it, such as weapons and German characters. I like the his work because I like the styles he uses and the combinations of materials that he incorporates. The images he brings together makes you look twice at the piece and to think about the meaning of it.
                                                                                          



This is his piece 'The Art Critic'. Within this piece he uses all the Dada techniques; collage, photomontage and typography. The background are German characters from a poster poem. The middle ground is cut out photos and the foreground is a figure of a man that is made up of photos and other collage elements. The text in the background makes the image stand out however because you cannot see all of it, it makes you consider what it says. When you first look at the image you may think that the item in his hand is a weapon, however when you look closer at it you can see that the item is just a utensil.  

Final piece health and safety.

Within my development and creating my final outcome there were some health and safety factors that I had to consider.

When working with the wire I had to be aware of the sharp ends and the ends that flung of when cutting the wire, so I had to work in a large area where there wasn't people.

When working with clay you have to consider 'COSHH' which is control of substances hazardous to health. The main hazard when working with clay is crystalline silica which is dust. Breathing in to much of this can cause silicosis which is a disease of the lungs. The hazards of this can be minimized by;

• Wearing a mask.
• Keeping exposure as low as possible by working away from others, using slurry bins, covering tables when working and washing surfaces, tools and equipment.
• Having a well ventilated room.

When I was merging the photography and illustrations together I had to use the programme Photoshop. Within the programme I used a range of tools including the 'magic wand tool' and the 'magnetic lasso' tool.