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Dada was an art movement during the First World War in Zurich. Art, poetry and performance made by Dada artists is  sarcastic, critical, mocking  and nonsensical.  The aim was to destroy traditional values in art and to create a new art to replace the old Dada began with a writer called Hugo Ball. In 1916 he started a satirical night-club in Zurich, the Cabaret Voltaire. He also started a magazine which  was the first of many dada publications. Dada became an international movement and eventually formed the basis of surrealism in Paris after the war. Some of the key artists in this movement are: Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Hannah Hoch Tristan Tzara Max Ernst Salvador Dali Kurt Schwitters Hans Arp Francis Picabia I find the concept of Dada very interesting, the idea of making works that generate difficult questions about society, the role of the artist, and the purpose of art.The use everyday objects that could be presented as art with little

 Max Ernst Salvador Dali Surrealism was a 20th century 'avant-garde' art movement. Its aim was to create work from there own dreams and thoughts of the unconscious mind.Two well known surrealist artist i want to look at in this report are Salvador Dali And Max Ernst. Both men were inspired by Sigmund Freud's dream theory, Freudian theory. Freud used the analogy of an iceberg to describe the three levels of the mind. On the surface is consciousness, which consists of thoughts and actions focused on now (this is seen as the tip of the iceberg) The preconscious consists of all which can be retrieved from memory. The third is the unconscious. He believed this part of the mind was responsible for most of our behavior (Like an iceberg, the most important part of the mind is the part you cannot see). He thought this part of the mind acted like a ‘cauldron’ of primitive wishes and impulses kept at bay or where we repressed thoughts, memories or information

Starting a new unit, illustration, i decided to look into the history of illustration to get a better understanding.In class we spoke about different types of illustration, how it is used and where is started. I a lwa y s fi nd doing a bit of background research helps me understand things better, and helps give me more on a ground to start on.  Wikipedia says "An  illustration  is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, [ designed for integration in published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films." But i wanted to understand what actually that means... Trenches-France-Chauvet The earliest recorded illustrations seem to be these cave paintings in Lascaux, France. It is around 30,000 years old. This is the first sign on Humans using narrative images to tell a story...Visual representation of words, events, stories or ideas... I then looked at the mi