Gabi Trinkaus

I love this artist, or 'media thief' as she has called herself in the past.

Gabi, born in 1966 in Austria, takes collage to a whole new, and innovative level. She cuts and sticks from glossy magazines to create something else beautiful and amazing. With all the cut out pieces of these glossy magazines, Gabi creates collages of portraits and city landscapes.

When creating these new beauties of fashion, with regards to the portraits she creates, it's almost as if she is recreating someone who has artificially been beautifully formed.

I could consider this when I make my compositions for each character- make the face of the character.

Hannah Hoch

Whilst researching collage and composition for this project, I came across a fab artist, Hannah Hoch.

Hoch is a little different to that of the likes of Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Hamilton as she creates photomontages rather than collages.

A photomontage is basically the cutting and sticking of a variety of photographs, stuck ontop of or with one another to create a full image.

Whereas a collage is seen as a work of formal art, whereby the artist uses a massive variety of materials- newspaper tears, ribbon, found objects etc. to create a complete image

Hannah Hoch is a german born, photomontage artist. She was in fact one of the originators of the photomantage to date. Hoch was very much part of the Dada movement in the art world.

I love her playful ways with her pieces. The colour composition for each piece is fab too, I think this is really important when placing imagery next to each other, depending on what effect you are wanting I think the colours should work well together- they need to work how you want them to.