RECOMPOSITION AND PHOTOMONTAGE AS A STIMULUS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVITY IN TEACHING VISUAL ARTS

Recomposition and photomontage are an integral part of contemporary art and should be implemented in the contemporary teaching of Visual Arts. This paper aimed to determine whether the use of recomposition and photomontage in Visual Arts classes stimulates student creativity. The research was carried out from 2019 to 2022 among students at the Department of Teacher Education and the Department of Preschool Education at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, who applied the methods of recomposition and photomontage in Visual Arts classes. The research was qualitative, with the use of observation method and descriptive method, and a total of 133 students participated in the research. The resulting artworks were divided into groups according to the degree of creativity that the students expressed in those works. After the research, it was concluded that the use of recomposition and photomontage stimulated student creativity. However, a significantly greater degree of freedom could have been reached in terms of combining, using imagination and creating new ideas.