My montage/joiner photo's

These are my attempts at joiner photography. I found that it was better to take as many photos as you can rather than few. You also need to stay at the same angle and zoom if you want the photos to it together neatly.

Picasso and Georges Braque cubism work

Picasso

Think about what was going on in the world throughout his life. War, poverty, depression, drugs, etc... At the same time look into his own life and try to relate the two. Art is an expression and inspiration for artists is what surrounds them. The meaning of his work is more of an opinion since you can not ask Picasso himself so no answer will be wrong.

All of Picasso's work is very unique and different. He has made his images very obscure as to what they could be representing or what the meaning behind them may be. We know that his art was a form of his own expressions. The image is made up of a variation of shapes and different colours to make a large scale picture. You have to be creatively minded in order to work out what is going on in some of his photos.

In this image he has created an image of a woman and she looks to be holding a cloth to her face or a piece of  paper and screwing it up and biting down on it with what i feel is anxiety or heartfelt pain. He has created an image over an image, im not sure how to describe it but you are able to see her face and hands on or through the cloth/handkerchief.

Picasso's work comes across very much like a photo montage!

Georges Braque

His work is less creative and wacky compared to Picasso's work but it is still unique! George Braque has chosen to create his paintings with an end product of looking more painted and sketched out where as Picasso has made an end product more of an image.

In George Braque's first painting you are able to see the brush strokes very well and the painting comes across a little like a joinery photograph!

His work is easily under stood and does not come across as if it were an expression of his own feelings they are more just paintings or drawings that maybe he has seen in real life like the first picture.

cubism photography

Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literatureand architecture. In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics.

Synthetic Cubism was the second main movement within Cubism that was developed by Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris and others between 1912 and 1919. Synthetic cubism is characterized by the introduction of different textures, surfaces, collage elements, papier collé and a large variety of merged subject matter. It was the beginning of collage materials being introduced as an important ingredient of fine art work.

Considered the first work of this new style was Pablo Picasso's "Still Life with Chair-caning" (1911–1912), which includes oil cloth that was printed to look like chair-caning pasted onto an oval canvas, with text; and rope framing the whole picture. At the upper left are the letters "JOU", which appear in many cubist paintings and refer to the newspaper titled Le Journal. Newspaper clippings were a common inclusion, physical pieces of newspaper, sheet music, and like items were also included in the collages. JOU may also at the same time be a pun on the French words jeu (game) or jouer (to play). Picasso and Braque had a friendly competition with each other and including the letters in their works may have been an extension of their game.

Whereas Analytic Cubism was an analysis of the subjects (pulling them apart into planes), Synthetic Cubism is more of a pushing of several objects together. Less pure than Analytic Cubism, Synthetic Cubism has fewer planar shifts (or schematism), and less shading, creating flatter space.

Photo montage and photo joinery

Photomontage is the process and result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs. The composite picture was sometimes photographed so that the final image is converted back into a seamless photographic print. A similar method, although one that does not use film, is realized today through image-editing software. This latter technique is referred to by professionals as "compositing", and in casual usage is often called "photoshopping".

Joiner Photography involves the use of two or more separately taken images of a single scene to create a larger one by physically overlapping them or by digitally merging them. It differs from montage photography in that it looks to expand the area of view of the photograph as opposed to insert several elements into a given picture frame. From this point on there are many directions to take the image in terms of shape, viewpoints, subject, narrative, time and style. These all involve more personal choices by the creator and provide the potential for a more intimate and individually driven photograph.

David Hockney research.

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