John Heartfield

After the Tutorial today, I followed Sigune's tip and did some research about work. I really liked his political photomontages. One can see the connection between his work and contemporary artist whose political work I admire, such as Banksy and the Chapman Brothers. All the advertising photomontages that have been bombing society in the last decades descend from this early form of communicative, political art developed by Hearfield and George Grosz

This quote I foundf in WWII Art is very interesting:

"When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at 5'oclock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had any inkling of its great possibilities, nor of the thorny yet successful road it was to take. As so often happens in life, we had stumbled across a vein of gold without knowing it."

George Grosz

More work from Heartfield and similar artist can be found in the avangarda online magazine. Very good quality images!

Hannah Hoch, Cut with the cake knife, 1919