The Dada movement was brought about by the events of World War I. Dada protested against the violence and society, it rebelled against traditions and conventional art forms. Artists used cheap material to achieve humor and irreverence.
This artwork, called "Bottle Rack"created artist Marcel Duchamp in 1914. This artwork is an example of a "readymade", a term used to describe ordinary, manufactured objects not commonly associated with art. It rebelled against conventional artworksand instead focused on a more nonsensical nature.
2. Describe the work of Jacob Lawrence in the video. What were this artist's influences?
The three artworks shown in the video have a central theme of a 2D space as well as the re-occurrence of African Americans. The first picture I would define as Chaotic, as it appears that there is a lot of motion in the artwork but it doesn't appear to make sense. The second and third I would say are more unified in the motion of the women in both artworks. Lawrence was influenced by artists such as Goya and Orozco as well as the Harlem renaissance and African American history.
3. See this page for my comment.
http://kharyandart.blogspot.com/2013/11/between-world-wars.html
Your responses were very clear. You explained the Dada movement beautifully. As far as the second response, you could have described Jacob's work a little more deeply. Although you did very well with describing how his work looked like and how it was made. Very well.
ReplyDeleteI really like the art piece you have chosen for Dada artwork the definition was also very clear. I think response #2 would have been more appealing to the viewer if you included a picture of one of Lawrence's paintings.
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