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montage (mŏntäzh`, Fr. môNtäzh`), the art and technique of motion-picture editing in which contrasting shots or sequences are used to effect emotional or intellectual responses. It was developed creatively after 1925 by the Russian Sergei Eisenstein Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich (syĭrgā` mēkhī`ləvĭch ī`zənshtīn) ..... Click the link for more information. ; since that time montage has become an increasingly complex and inventive way of extending the imaginative possibilities of film art. In still photography a composite picture, made by combining several prints, or parts of prints, and then rephotographing them as a whole, is often called a montage or a photomontage. BibliographySee M. Teitelbaum, Montage and Modern Life, 1919–1942 (1992). montage(French; “mounting”) Pictorial technique in which cut-out illustrations, or fragments of them, are arranged together and mounted on a support, producing a composite picture made from several different pictures. It differs from collage in using only ready-made images chosen for their subject or message. The technique is widely used in advertising. Photomontage uses photographs only. In motion pictures, montage is the sequential assembling of separate pieces of thematically related film by the director, film editor, and visual and sound technicians, who cut and fit each part with the others to produce visual juxtapositions and complex audio patterns. montage 1. the art or process of composing pictures by the superimposition or juxtaposition of miscellaneous elements, such as other pictures or photographs 2. such a composition 3. a method of film editing involving the juxtaposition or partial superimposition of several shots to form a single image 4. a rapidly cut film sequence of this kind montage [män′tazh] (graphic arts) In photography, a collection of photos pasted on a common background, or a composite picture made by printing two or more negatives on a single sheet of photographic paper.
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Examining postcolonial dreams gone awry, Michele Magema's two-channel DVD installation Oye Oye, 2002, juxtaposes the artist's torso, marching in the Congolese uniform she wore as a child when her parents fled Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1983 as political refugees, with montaged footage of group dances performed during dictator Mobutu Sese Seko's "national authenticity" campaign. And the massive enlargement of a number of tiny photographs (including some whimsical portraits of each artist) visually evokes Klutsis's own important theorization of monumental photography in an essay first published in 1932 on the occasion of his production of two "super-gigantic" montaged portraits of Lenin and Stalin. In Untitled (John Travolta), a beefcake mug shot of the Saturday Night Fever star is montaged into a glossy reproduction of a painted countryside, his fantastic feathered hair giving way to rocky crags and penetrating sunbeams. |
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