The Dada Movement

Dada artists sought to move a far away from tradition and rationalism as possible and break every rule that traditionalism enforced. They were fiercely anti-war and saw traditionalism and rationality as one of the main causes of WWI. In an effort to attack reason and rationality, artist often didn’t plan, but rather relied on chance. They allowed their works to come naturally without any predetermined idea of the final product. Artists, often, created collages and assemblages which rejected traditional elements of intention and control. Images were taken from newspapers and magazines and distorted in a way to critique the violence of the world and those in power. Photomontage is a technique used a lot in Dadaism art. Photomontage is a type of collage in which photographs are pieced together into a single composition. Hannah Höch was a prominent female artist with the Dadaism movement in Germany after the war. Her photomontage, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, made in 1919 is a perfect example of this antiwar and violence position, by tearing down the powerful. She includes images from the media of powerful world and military leaders, manipulating them in ways that strips them of their masculinity and criticizes their role in

An artwork that I hadn't paid much mind to in the earlier chapters was Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany by Hannah Höch (fig. 3.57). However, I encountered more of Höch's work while doing research for my creative project, and it made me want to take another look at her art. She did work with collage, or photomontage, and almost all her work has Dadaist and/or feminist themes. This specific piece focuses on political satire, and requires some historical context to really understand. But even without context, the chaos and imagery of the collage provides more than enough symbolism to chew on. I think it's easy to take a look at something like this and pass it off as something anyone could

Raoul Wallenberg was born near Stockholm, Sweden on August 4, 1912. His father died, due to an illness, only a few months before Wallenberg was born. As a result, his grandfather raised him, giving him a lavish childhood. Wallenberg grew up going on extensive trips around Europe and expiring many different cultures. After mandatory military school, Raoul went to a architecture academy in Paris, and graduated top in his class.

Impactful across the globe, both Dada and Surrealism were artistic movements created in the early 20th century that were significant in redefining modern art today. The Dada movement came about in 1916 through the performance of Hugo Ball’s sound poem “Karawane” at the Cabaret Voltaire that he opened with his partner, nightclub singer Emmy Hennings, in Zurich, Switzerland. The poem made absolutely no sense, purposely, and it didn’t have to. Ball would also dress in wild costumes for his performances as seen below:

Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Zwittau, Czechoslovakia. He grew up in the Sudetenland which was a part of Czechoslovakia that was mainly German. He married his wife Emilie in 1928. This caused a flaw in his relationship with his father. This caused Schindler to move Jobs ("Oskar Schindler").

Art can be expressed in many forms but one of the best has got to be political art, as it expresses art in a relevant form for many to understand, it doesn’t require knowledge in history. It puts out a statement in a bold way so that people may better understand what is trying to be expressed. Many artists use art in topics like reproductive rights, equality, gun control, human rights, the environment and war to express desire for change. One of the most outspoken political artists is Barbara Kruger, who has had her work installed in many well-known museums. Kruger has become even more known because of her relevance using art to criticize well-known public figures like Kim Kardashian and George W. Bush, she has also been a proud supporter of reproductive rights. One of her most known works is “Your body is a battleground” which was printed in 1989 in her support for the “March for Women’s Lives”. To show the positive and negatives sides of the inner struggle, the good and the evil. She has a reputation of supporting feminism ideas but she hasn’t stopped there, she’s even had her work put on display in the Hirshhorn Museum. She has gotten the attention of The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times because of her distinctive contemporary works. The beauty of her art is that it relates to many, her art ranges from domestic violence to compulsive shopping and everything in-between, it is also really easy

Raoul Wallenberg lived a great but short life from August 4, 1912, until July 17, 1947. Raoul was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Raouls father worked in the Swedish Navy, but later died of cancer. Both of his parents were from very Swedish families. Raouls father died three months before he was born. Let alone, his grandfather, Gustav Wallenberg, took charge in making Raouls life the best it could be. Moreover, he made sure that Raoul knew about different cultures and languages and that he was well educated. Gustav also took him on trips around Europe. His mother, Maj, later remarried in 1981 to a man named Fredrick von Darriel. With a new brother and sister, considering this, the family was then very wealthy. Raoul was a very intelligent

Dada was an art movement described by Dada poet Tristan Tzara as “not the beginnings of art, but of disgust.” The movement came into existence through a small group of artists and poets in Zurich who eventually wrote a set of strategies and philosophies aiming to revolutionise visual art, performance and poetry, as well as revolutionary ideas about the politics and social values. Dada came into existence amid the first world war. For the artists the war was evidence that the break down of social structures, corrupt nationalist politics, and unquestioning conformity of culture and thought led to such violence. (Moma.org, n.d.)

Raoul Wallenberg was born on August 4, 1912 in Sweden. He was born into one of the richest families in Sweden, the Wallenbergs. Since his family was very wealthy, he had the opportunity to attend college abroad in another continent. In 1931, Wallenberg went to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the United States to study architecture. He graduated in three and a half years with a bachelor’s degree of Science in Architecture. This bachelor’s degree allowed him to come into contact with many Jews that had escaped from Europe during the early years of persecution while he was working on architecture in Palestine (Raoul Wallenberg).

What really makes this piece significant is its attention to detail, and also its lack of detail. All the bright and simple kid drawings of flowers that convey our innocence and ignorance are just simple. Their simplicity relates back to colors of a simpler time when we didn’t know anything, like we still do in a way now. In the middle of it all is the boy who represent the truth of what really is, his picture flawlessly contrast the colorful simple ness of the sketches with not only his black and whiteness, but also is seriousness. That outline of his body and gun alone is a drastic difference from the straight lines that make the flowers. Even the shading shows the professional step up the boys sketch is from his face and left side being white, and his right

Dada was an artistic and literary movement that grew out of dissatisfaction with traditional social values and conventional artistic practices during World War I. Dada artists were disillusioned by the social values that led to the war and sought to expose accepted and often repressive conventions of order and logic by shocking people into self-awareness. Marcel Duchamp was one of the first to participate in this movement. He is known for his satirical or humorous content and the use of accompanying text. Duchamp began to grow disappointed with “retinal” art though, and soon stopped painting on canvases altogether. He then moved out of the already existing boundaries of art into was is now called conceptual art. His monumental work is known today as The Bride Bare by Her Bachleors, Even, or The Large Glass. Duchamp worked on this piece for eight years, until he abandoned it in what he referred to as a “definitively unfinished” state. This piece of work includes humor, random chance, pessimism, and anti-art; these four elements are often found in Dada art.

On August 4, 1912, Raoul Wallenberg was born near Stockholm, Sweden (www.history.com). Raoul was born into one of Sweden’s weathiest and most important families (Brown, www.bbc.com). Raoul’s mother was Maj Wising Wallenberg. His father was Swedish Navy Lieutenant, Oskar Wallenberg. His father died of an illness 3 months before Raoul’s birth (www.history.com). His paternal grandfather, Gustav Wallenberg, took care of Raoul (www.history.com).

Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria on April 20, 1889, he was the fourth born of

Hans Haacke was born August 12, 1936 in the little town of Cologne, Germany. Before he started formal education, he was part of an global organization known as Zero. Zero was a

Each artist of the Dada era had a new way of expressing Freud?s ideas. They also felt that art was a powerful means of self-revelation, and that the images came from ones subconscious mind had a truth of its own. As Marcel Duchamp mocked the Mona Lisa by drawing a Padilla 3 mustache on her, stated that the painting was a lewd message set by the conventional way of thinking. Since the Dada artist did not believe in western culture this made sense, because people only want believe what is told to them, instead of what is true. The Dada movement marked a meeting of people to have ?noise concerts? where they recited poems in a free association verse. In these poetry readings the artist perceived how they felt about the world. As World War I began the Dadaist perceived it as a world gone mad. Not only did they express their work in unconventional ways; they used the subconscious as a way of making their views true. Although the Dada era was short lived it influenced and questioned the traditional concepts of the western world. These techniques set an agenda for a new trial by error art form of this same era. The spirit of Freud in the Dadaist era never really died, it is shown today as ?Pop art? or sometimes known as neo-Dada art forms. Also this revolution of thinking and art paved the way for the Surrealist movement. The Surrealist movement of the 1920?s through 1930?s captivated the world with its bizarre way of thinking. Just as the Dadaist used