Montage: Blog 1

Question: Briefly discuss why you think painters of the Victorian period might have criticized these early photo montages and why the pictures were popular with the general public. (This technique of piecing together separate images to create one picture is again very popular with both artists and the media). What two reasons can you think of for this revival of an old technique? 

 I believe that painters during the Victorian period might have might have criticized these early photo montages because painters worked very hard to create such spectacular images and by taking such things and making it by a computer compressed of various people and places is almsot like cheating. I believe that they are poupular with the public because they are unique and appealing to the eye. Some reasons I can come up with about why this technique has been revived is because of the visual appeal and the creativity and blatant fun that comes out of such images.

Jerry Uelsmann