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.
The work above i think is a really good example of what her work is about, it shows the stigma between cars and woman with the BMW logo. It has a woman's figure and hair in a fashionable style, that i think, is highlighting the beauty standards of the time as well as the light bulb on the figures head, a mocking way of how women were shown as having more freedoms and being bright independent thinkers.
In my first year i created my own version of this collage.
( http://catrinaannbarquist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/dada-collage_20.html )
I used modern imagery to re create this work, but i wanted to make it even more modern and do a digital recreation.
I decided to recreate a few more of her works in this way...
Another Artist i wanted to look at is Raoul Hausmann. He was an Austrian artist and writer. he experimented with photographic collages, sound and poetry. I tried to create some Dada style poems in my sketch book by cutting out words from an article, shaking them in a bag and then pouring them onto the page to create nonsensical poetry.
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 manipulation by the artist. I love the that art is the idea, the concept. That the use of the ready made objects used in this way forced questions about creativity, skill, idea and the very definition of art - to this day!
The essence of art is to ask question both in viewing and making. Why that colour, why that composition why that shape, form, line. Dada, i think, pushed this as far as it could go. The idea to create something for no reason, other than to create.
I believe it is human nature to create. Give a child a means to draw and a surface, clay to mold or blocks to build and they will make something, even if it makes no sense to an adult mind what they are creating, they are creating something that i believe another child would not question in the way an adult would. I find that very interesting!
Dada was the first time i started getting interested in collage. In my first year i looked at Hannah Hoch.
I choose her work to look at purely because she was one of the few female artists creating work in the early twentieth century but the more i read about her i found her so interesting... She was female activist, she promoted the idea of women working in the arts. She used photo montage to highlight and question the ideas of gender and society. Her work challenged the status of woman in the social world, and promoted the idea of a "New Woman" in her time.
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| Hannah Hoch's Das Schone Madchen_beautiful girl |
The work above i think is a really good example of what her work is about, it shows the stigma between cars and woman with the BMW logo. It has a woman's figure and hair in a fashionable style, that i think, is highlighting the beauty standards of the time as well as the light bulb on the figures head, a mocking way of how women were shown as having more freedoms and being bright independent thinkers.
In my first year i created my own version of this collage.
( http://catrinaannbarquist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/dada-collage_20.html )
I used modern imagery to re create this work, but i wanted to make it even more modern and do a digital recreation.
I decided to recreate a few more of her works in this way...
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| Untitled (Large Hand Over Woman’s Head), 1930 |
I tried to keep colours and as much imagery as i could the same. but while trying to find inspiration to cover the nipples ( i thought it would work well with issues with female nipples) i stumbled across and artist called Sarah Lucas who used eggs on her chest for a self portrait and i really liked how it looked.
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| Ohne Titel (Aus einem ethnographischen Museum) , 1930 |
I then decided to start experimenting with my own collages, using feminist issues and ideas to inspire the work. I decided to focus on Instagram recent censorship of female nipples.
Another Artist i wanted to look at is Raoul Hausmann. He was an Austrian artist and writer. he experimented with photographic collages, sound and poetry. I tried to create some Dada style poems in my sketch book by cutting out words from an article, shaking them in a bag and then pouring them onto the page to create nonsensical poetry.
But i also found this web sight that will scramble words for you, its pretty fun.
I also had a look at Hausmann's collages.
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| The Art Critic 1919-20. |
I think this work has a lot to do with political views. I find that quite interesting in the Dada movement. The German banknote behind the neck is interesting as well as the words in the background, i know they are part of a poem made by Hausmann to be pasted on the walls of Berlin.
I liked the idea of creating political inspired collages so i decided to give it a go.
I decided for my main body of work looking at Dada collage i would create physical collages in my sketch book and on separate bigger bits of paper / card. I do find it easier to make digital collages but i miss out on the connection i get with the work from cutting and sticking.
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