Thursday 12 April 2007

Kurt Schwitters - dada artist

Kurt Schwitters is generally acknowledged as the twentieth century's greatest master of collage. Just as collage is essentially the medium of irony, so Schwitters' life is characterized by paradox and enigma . . . http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm

Looking at dadas work especially Kurt Schwitters work I was interested in his collage techniques and the way he built up his pieces with different images cut from magazine articles.

Within my net-art piece I plan to use the same idea of found images (from the Net – known as harvesting)

It will be interesting to look at using images identifiable by the audiences.

Mara Kurtz