Hannah Hoch - Propaganda Art

Hannah Höch was born Anna Therese Johanne Höch in Gotha, Germany. 

In 1912 she began classes at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin under the guidance of glass designer Harold Bergen. She chose the curriculum glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her father.

In 1914, at the start of World War I, she left the school and returned home to Gotha to work with the Red Cross. In 1915 she returned to school, entering the graphics class of Emil Orlik at the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts.

Also in 1915, Höch began an influential friendship with Raoul Hausman, a member of the Berlin Dada movement. Höch's involvement with the Berlin Dadaists began in earnest in 1919. After her schooling, she worked in the handicrafts department for Ullstein Verlag (The Ullstein Press), designing dress and embroidery patterns for Die Dame (The Lady) and Die Praktische Berlinerin (The Practical Berlin Woman).

Hannah Hoch was an artist who made exceptional collages, her history as shown above is an extensive one, which led her to the collage artist she was known for.

Cause for Concern - Stencil Art

For my first Stencil, I used it on newspaper as my first background, I used grey as the background colour as it suited the dark, rebellious aura it gave off.

Black was used for the rebel, again reflecting the dark atmosphere, the molotov was yellow, red and orange which helped show off its destructive power.

A simple green for the tank attacking the rebel, showing its contrast to the rebel and molotov being thrown.

I used tracing paper as a background material this time, as shown above the background was not grey for this as I found it more relevant to focus on the stencil, rather than go through the process of covering the figures exact shapes.

For my last stencil, I used paper to make the figures of the stencils stand out more, as seen in the last two stencils,  have changed the bottle colour to black and left the flame at the top, so it is seemingly flowing out of the bottle as it is being thrown.

The background on the first seemed to interfere with much of the work, especially the fire from the tank barrel, which is why its missing from the last two.

This cause of concern stencil was for the Russia - Ukraine takeover concern, clearly showing the might of the forces by the tank, the oppression shown by the rebel, and the destruction both sides have caused by the thrown molotov incendiary.