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Patricia’s subculture

Culture is the norm for a society, etc.  I think it’s mostly the accepted ways of communicating intentions, which is necessary because if everyone decided to communicate the same intention in different ways, life should be frustrating.   A subculture is usually a response to the society’s way of communicating, a sort of reinvention.  Typically [...]

Ron on Culture/Sub-Culture

1- The relation of culture and sub-culture is of the symbiotic relationship were they rely on one another to continue. Culture is a multi faceted word of meanings, yet has three distinct aspects being a cultivation of growth, a way of living and understanding, and culture is in a way a thing/product/art work (a product [...]

Nickoli’s response to photomontage

To me photomontage simply has no rules, no restrictions or boundaries. It is a simple form of art that is expressionistic of the artist and gives them the freedom to do what they want. It is a simple art form that uses photos and combines and manipulates them in any way the artist desires. It [...]

Nickoli’s subculture response

1)Explain the relationship between culture and subculture.
A subculture is a reaction or effect of breaking the rules of the overall culture. Culture is framed by rules in which society governs itself by and is based on things such as tradition and past reactions to human experiences. A subculture is based on the actual culture of [...]

Artin’s Response to Subcultures

 Explain the relationship between culture and sub-culture.
A subculture is a defined and specific group of individuals in a culture. For example, Americans are considered a culture, and stemming from this culture is another culture; Hipsters. These hipsters have a unique way of dressing, talking, and even smelling that defines them as a subculture.  The traits [...]

Artin’s Response to Photomontage

Photomontaging seems so overused these days; this article reminds me that it was not always around. In fact, it was just created less than a century ago and has evolved so much. Nowadays, one can simply use Photoshop to create a photomontage by blending images together. However, to many photomontaging is a lot more than [...]

Nickoli on Grey

The color gray or grey in British include all the colors in the range of using black and white. Different shades of gray can also be made by mixing a color with its compliment. By mixing these colors the grays they form take on different characteristics. For example as these colors are mixed some grays [...]

Ron’s response to Photomontage

Photomontage is a very interesting thing. Beginning in the term “photomontage” after world war one to describe the considered anti-art and give work and its workers a name. Starting with Berlin Dadaists they used the word of “montage” which in German means assembly line and/or mechanic or engineer  and the medium of the photo to [...]

Chris’s Subculture Response

1) Explain the relationship between culture and sub-culture.
Culture is a framework of rules by which a society governs and controls itself and is a result of tradition and a reaction to experiences. Although it is a vague term, Stephen Duncombe describes it as a process of cultivation and growth, a pattern of living and a [...]

Victor’s Photomontage

It was such a coincidence that while reading the Photomontage article I was doing HW from my lab class which required taking images from various pictures to make your own picture. I was cutting out images from different resources and placing them in Photoshop to create a unified composition conveying one message. Ironically, photomontage has [...]