Kurt Schwitters

I chose these images from a book on the artists work. Schwitters was a leading artists in collage work during world war 1. He used collage as a way of getting across poltical messages. I think this is a really useful way of knowing what the mood was like during the time of the war and how it was for people to live with the conflict. The use of newpaper clippings and found images really gets the message across and the time for the piece is identifiable from this too.
I thought it would be useful to look at artists who have used collage throughout the decades to show the mood of the country and world at that specific time.