Thursday, November 7, 2013

Between World Wars



Monica Vazquez
HUA 101.1301
Professor Harmon
November 6, 2013

Dada Artwork
1. Describe a Dada Artwork. What world event influenced this style? How?
Dada artwork is art that was created by pieces cheap uncollectable material put together to create an art piece whose purpose is to be radical and to see things in a new perspective. The Mona Lisa with the mustache is unconventional. It breaks all the rules of art and has its viewers respond to a message of accepting what is out of place and looking at in from a different point of view. The dada artwork started in protest after world war one, it was used criticized society through its rebellious art. These pieces are out of the ordinary, they are not cohesive, and they ridiculed conventional rule. By making something that is out of the ordinary in a time where things are ruled by chaos, they begin to understand artwork that is outspoken and different.

2. Describe the work of Jacob Lawrence in the video. What were this artist's influences?
The work of Jacob Lawrence is an artist who talks about migration and labor of southern African Americans. Some of Jacob Lawrence’s influences are Goya, African American history, and the Harlem Renaissance. His paintings were also inspired by Matisse; he uses patterns and flat space similar to the work of French Modernists.

1 comment:

  1. Talk more about the Mona Lisa, like what was the purpose for the artist to draw the mustache on the Mona Lisa.

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