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    sexuality come together, and the effects that a totalitarian society has on personal expression. Concerned with the staggering losses that came with World War I and the social inequalities that had come to light with the industrial revolution, the Dada movement was created to make sense of it all. The general conclusion however was that it really did not make sense. The movement was born as a way to oppose the way society was run. The so called logic and rationality of the bourgeois and their capitalism

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    Every piece of art in Modernism period falls into two sections. It is either known as being a Geometrical Abstraction or Expressionism. In terms of art, most of the Early Modernism art fell into Geometrical Abstraction and the art of High Modernism fell into Expressionism. During the period of Early Modernism, the artists were truly experimenting with new features of geometric shapes to express symbolism and used what was going on in the economic world for inspiration. Some movements that distributed

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    create the piece God proved that she deserved to be respected in the Dada scene. After Dada, Surrealism came into the limelight. Salvador Dalí the most famous Surrealist and he had a lot to say about women in his art. In his painting The Great Masturbator, done in 1929, he made a statement about the disease he believed female sexuality was. This was a much more oppressive attitude when compared to the previous art movement, Dada. When World War One started in 1914, women had to take the place of

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    Expressionism, it aesthetically it marked ‘a mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes’. Challenging conventional art which was meticulously planned and completed, Dada pieces incorporated the idea of chance, ‘making works that often upended bourgeois sensibilities and that generated difficult questions about society.’ Dada artists were well-known for their use of readymade objects which could be bought and adapted into new pieces of artwork,

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    Hoch’s photomontage was one of many collages that criticized the cultural staleness, depravity, and decaying values of the German state. Through her depiction of German politicians and technology in a state of chaos and confusion, she was effectively able to convince the German people to reevaluate their faith in the government and current cultural values. She used the fast-advancing technology of the time (especially mass media) in also advancing her own goals of sardonically criticizing the failings

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    In the article Art forever changed by World War I, the writer states that “in visual art, Surrealism and Expressionist devised wobbly, chopped-up perspective and nightmarish visions of fractured human bodies” (Johnson). John Singer Sargent Gassed painting was and still is a great explain about what the writer of the article described visual arts to be. The painting was a reflection of the aftermath of the gas attack that occurred during the World War I. Looking back at the artwork the viewer could

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    Man Ray 's Life Style

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    Man Ray Early Life Man Ray, was born Emmanuel Radnitzky (August 27,1890 - November 18, 1976), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. he was an accomplished American painter, filmmaker, sculptor, illustrator, Dadaist and Surrealist, and photographer. Being a Dadaist and Surrealist he was a huge contributor for the movement while it lasted. He was known for documenting the lavished life style in France. He spent most of his life living in France and America; he spent 42 years in America and 44 years in France

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    Surrealism was an art movement based on dreams, unconscious thought and defying conventional logic. It grew out of the earlier avant-garde movement called Dada in the 1920s. Dada was about chaos and rejecting logic and rationality, and was also referred to as anti-art. Just like Surrealism it often featured bizarre imagery that didn 't make sense. Famous surrealist artists include Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst, and Frida Kahlo (although she rejected the label)

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    Hausmann was an Austrian artist who adhered to strict expressionistic styles until introduced to Dadaism, an unrealistic artistic and literary movement of many different mediums occurring from 1916 to 1924. Hausmann became one of the founding members of Dada in Berlin; a style which centres on the mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes formed in World War 1. Its influences include other avant-garde movements such as Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism.

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    Influence of the Dada movement Dada movement started in nineteen sixteen, by a poet and artist named Tristan Tzara and Hans Arp. As a response to the killing, propaganda and firstly the first world war. Individualist groups joint together by means of similar concepts, even though these groups did not share a universal style, but since they all rejected the idealism, stale artistic and intellectual conventions and modern society’s unchecked embrace of ‘rationalism’ and ‘progress’. Dada was

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