Thursday, December 20, 2012

Creativity in art design and multimedia

[WEEK 09]


Creativity in Art Design and Multimedia

Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities. Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content formsCreativity refers to the invention or origination of any new thing that has value.



The Dadaism used scissors and glue rather than paintbrushes and paints to express their views of modern life through images presented by the media. A variation on the collage technique, photomontage utilized actual or reproductions of real photographs printed in the press. In Cologne, Max Ernst used images from World War I to illustrate messages of the destruction of war.
"DADA" was the name given to an "Anti-Art" movement that began in Zurich Switzerland in 1916.  It began in the chaotic and violent times during the first world war by exiled poets, dancers, artist and actors.  They were fleeing the meat grinding machine of war to the safe neutral mountain country of Switzerland. 



Example of Photomontage :









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