With our first semester task we were challenged to create a photomontage piece inspired by the dadaist movement (1915). Dadaism is essentially an artistic idea of imagery produced to provide/represent a meaning and in this case it means to be political. From looking at the work of Hannah Höch with her montage work of cutting and pasting physical images to create art, in todays contemporary media culture there is a vast amount of topics and versatility to experiment with either physical/digital images.
With my work attached below I decided to use Donald Trump as the basis for my piece, to create a somewhat comical image of Trump merged with Hulk Hogan with him being against an opposition ranging from a variety of individuals, to his conflicts addressed on social media and also his issue with CNN and fake news. The reason why I wanted to merge Donald Trump with Hulk Hogan is because Hogan’s persona was literally being the embodiment of patriotism with him being this all American good guy. So the representation I wanted to try and provide for the viewer is that trump see’s himself as the ultimate patriot. Within contemporary culture and photomontage I found it crucial to include the president for this particular task and to reference the controversy he has been apart of dating back to a number of years.
