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.