Briefly discuss why you think painters of the Victorian period might have criticized these early photomontages 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 of the Victorian period might have criticized early photomontages due to the fact that photomontages are far from reality. Painters could manipulate there paintings but photographers could not, tell photomontage. The photomontage are many pictures taken of different areas and are manipulated into one photograph to where it looks real. With the general public, using photomontages, the public had the ability to escape to a dream world and admire the wonders of the different montages, it was something new to the public that appealed to their eyes.
A couple of reasons I believe the old technique has "come back" to be very popular is because of technology now-a-days and the general public/ media. With the different computer programs, like photoshop, photomontages are much more easy to create and takes so much less time. Also, the public has always viewed photomontages as a very unique technique that appeals to the human senses. Thus, as the public "demands" for photomontages, and more are brought out making to technique once again very popular.
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