Marcel Duchamp’s version of Mona Lisa was one of Dada’s works, he painted a moustache and goatee on her face, simply because the original Mona Lisa was no longer accredited as a painting any more, it was known to be on cards, mugs, postcards and posters, therefore losing it's statement. In doing this Duchamp’s version of the painting also became very famous and the same thing happened, it was also printed on mugs, posters etc. The point of the Dadaism is to mock the modern world and things they considered priceless, such as the Mona Lisa in this case.
The piece i have chosen to talk about is a piece of dadaist art work. whereby a man is staring at a wall with picture frames hanging but nothing is on the photo. This caught my eye as the image of the man staring at nothing seemed to just be reinforcing the dadaist theories. However one could interpret this as being as the man is seeing more than a white canvas - "what isn't he looking at?" rather than "what is he looking at" - again supporting the daft and nonsensical theories.
Another piece of art which also drew me to it was a cartton sketch of a man with a speech bubble quoting "dadaism is stupid" - having an almost sense of irony on the given statement and that the impact of the statement upon itself is that dadaism is not meant to make sense and that the quote is reinforcing that but the sarcasm behind it will make viewers say "isn't that clever" due to its double entrendre.
After looking at several examples of Dada art work, the piece that stood out the most for me was Hannah Höch’s collage/photo montage‘Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany’ which was displayed at the first international Dada fair. The piece was produced between 1919 and 1920 and captures and reflects the change in the government after World War 1 and the political chaos which was occurring during this time. The fragmentation of images in the piece also reflects and defines the culture. The wheels and cogs in the piece make it seem like a machine. This shows that Hoch intended the piece to appear to be a machine of government, culture and Dada.
Hannah Hoch shows her views and opinions through the piece as the top right section of the piece which is the anti-Dada section features politicians who were supporting the war which Hoch is clearly against. She also shows her feminist views due to the way she was treated as being a female Dada artist. She shows this through the piece as in the bottom right corner, there is a tiny image of her face stuck on a map highlighting the countries in Europe which had women’s voting rights at that time. Also, the reference to ‘kitchen knife’ in the title of the piece hints at the stereotypical views of women in that period as they were expected to be in the kitchen. She also shows her views in a satirical way as she has cut out heads of several powerful males who were in power during that time and has stuck them on different bodies such as a baby’s body and an exotic dancers body.
The artist that I have chosen to research is Cornel Gingarasu. The painting is called “dada artist” and consists of a naked women facing a wall of canvases. You can see her back her, shoulders and her arms. Her arms are placed behind her back and hands lay under the cheeks of her derriere. The picture then becomes distorted as you raise your focus. I realised that her head is on back to front her hair forming around the front of her neck, for some reason she is wearing goggles. This interests me as I personally have many interpretations of what this painting could signify. One being to reflect an artist looking at art, as well as the woman in the painting being art herself the fact she is naked implies the subject f feminism The painting certainly does engage the audience but what it doesn’t do is follow the rules and conventions of mainstream art. Dada artists set out to challenge mainstream art. Dada was born in around world war one dada intended to provoke an emotional reaction from the viewer, typically shock or outrage. The painting also has a 3D effect a table of paints next to the women which does suggest that she herself is an artist. What is special about this art work is that there is no profound definition to the meaning of the painting. The artist raises a subject and the leaves it to the viewer to make there own assumptions and take away what they wish.
I was looking through all the dada art work i Could not find anything that i wanted to write about but finally i found this image by a British graffiti artist Banksy. He took a picture of a Vietnamese girl running naked from a napalm attack and put her together with mickey mouse and the McDonalds clown. The way she was running with her arms apart fit perfectly with the picture so she looked like she was holding hands with the two happy characters. Mickey mouse and the clown looked really happy but the colours used said otherwise. He only used grey black and white. I believe the use of colours was a statement, if he used bright colours the picture would look happy even though the girl in the middle is scared and crying. What really strike me about the picture was that further i researched about the picture i came to understand that the little girl represents communism and what better symbols of capitalism than mickey mouse and the McDonalds clown. I think it is the idea of the war and how the monsters turning into heroes after war and millions of people have nothing to say about it.
Marcel Duchamp’s version of Mona Lisa was one of Dada’s works, he painted a moustache and goatee on her face, simply because the original Mona Lisa was no longer accredited as a painting any more, it was known to be on cards, mugs, postcards and posters, therefore losing it's statement. In doing this Duchamp’s version of the painting also became very famous and the same thing happened, it was also printed on mugs, posters etc. The point of the Dadaism is to mock the modern world and things they considered priceless, such as the Mona Lisa in this case.
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ReplyDeleteThe piece i have chosen to talk about is a piece of dadaist art work. whereby a man is staring at a wall with picture frames hanging but nothing is on the photo. This caught my eye as the image of the man staring at nothing seemed to just be reinforcing the dadaist theories. However one could interpret this as being as the man is seeing more than a white canvas - "what isn't he looking at?" rather than "what is he looking at" - again supporting the daft and nonsensical theories.
Another piece of art which also drew me to it was a cartton sketch of a man with a speech bubble quoting "dadaism is stupid" - having an almost sense of irony on the given statement and that the impact of the statement upon itself is that dadaism is not meant to make sense and that the quote is reinforcing that but the sarcasm behind it will make viewers say "isn't that clever" due to its double entrendre.
After looking at several examples of Dada art work, the piece that stood out the most for me was Hannah Höch’s collage/photo montage‘Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany’ which was displayed at the first international Dada fair. The piece was produced between 1919 and 1920 and captures and reflects the change in the government after World War 1 and the political chaos which was occurring during this time. The fragmentation of images in the piece also reflects and defines the culture. The wheels and cogs in the piece make it seem like a machine. This shows that Hoch intended the piece to appear to be a machine of government, culture and Dada.
ReplyDeleteHannah Hoch shows her views and opinions through the piece as the top right section of the piece which is the anti-Dada section features politicians who were supporting the war which Hoch is clearly against. She also shows her feminist views due to the way she was treated as being a female Dada artist. She shows this through the piece as in the bottom right corner, there is a tiny image of her face stuck on a map highlighting the countries in Europe which had women’s voting rights at that time. Also, the reference to ‘kitchen knife’ in the title of the piece hints at the stereotypical views of women in that period as they were expected to be in the kitchen. She also shows her views in a satirical way as she has cut out heads of several powerful males who were in power during that time and has stuck them on different bodies such as a baby’s body and an exotic dancers body.
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ReplyDeleteThe artist that I have chosen to research is Cornel Gingarasu.
The painting is called “dada artist” and consists of a naked women facing a wall of canvases. You can see her back her, shoulders and her arms. Her arms are placed behind her back and hands lay under the cheeks of her derriere.
The picture then becomes distorted as you raise your focus. I realised that her head is on back to front her hair forming around the front of her neck, for some reason she is wearing goggles.
This interests me as I personally have many interpretations of what this painting could signify. One being to reflect an artist looking at art, as well as the woman in the painting being art herself the fact she is naked implies the subject f feminism
The painting certainly does engage the audience but what it doesn’t do is follow the rules and conventions of mainstream art.
Dada artists set out to challenge mainstream art.
Dada was born in around world war one dada intended to provoke an emotional reaction from the viewer, typically shock or outrage.
The painting also has a 3D effect a table of paints next to the women which does suggest that she herself is an artist.
What is special about this art work is that there is no profound definition to the meaning of the painting. The artist raises a subject and the leaves it to the viewer to make there own assumptions and take away what they wish.
I was looking through all the dada art work i Could not find anything that i wanted to write about but finally i found this image by a British graffiti artist Banksy. He took a picture of a Vietnamese girl running naked from a napalm attack and put her together with mickey mouse and the McDonalds clown. The way she was running with her arms apart fit perfectly with the picture so she looked like she was holding hands with the two happy characters. Mickey mouse and the clown looked really happy but the colours used said otherwise. He only used grey black and white. I believe the use of colours was a statement, if he used bright colours the picture would look happy even though the girl in the middle is scared and crying. What really strike me about the picture was that further i researched about the picture i came to understand that the little girl represents communism and what better symbols of capitalism than mickey mouse and the McDonalds clown. I think it is the idea of the war and how the monsters turning into heroes after war and millions of people have nothing to say about it.
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