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Dada and expressionism were two art movements which arose during war times. They arose when artists responded to the injustices of the war. They both wanted mordern art more freedom of expression.They both introduced new approaches to experimentation to art. Their works were both bold, spontaneous and shocked the artworld plus challenged the past. Among some of the dada artist's are Jean Arp perhaps the most gifted of them all, Kurt Schwitter's, and photomontagist Hannah hoch. Among the expressionist Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock one of the leader's of abstract expressionism.

Some critic's argue that dada work was in fact nonsense and not really a movement in art. It was later was to encounter resistance through out the world. But it did served a purpose by changelling traditional approaches to artmaking and served as a bridge to the surrealist movement. It also pushed social and political message's.

Dada arose out of the confusion, when there was a cultural revolt by artist's against what they saw as the declining state of society due to the war.In 1916 dadaism was born at the cabaret Voltare. " A centre for artistic entertainment"Among the first contributers were Hugo Ball, Rumaian painter Marcel Janco, Tristan T


Hannah hoch's work Indian female dancer shows a women's head pushed back where half of her face is an indian slavethe face is hidden behind cut out silmouelies of knives and folks shaped like a clownShe laid forth in her photomontages an acrid, edgy vision, the figures adroly deformed by cutting into, not around the photo engravings the buildings multiplied montage intersperd with fragments of machnergy.She jaxtapositioned the mordern German woman with the coloinal German in doing so she challenged cultural representations of women rising questions regarding women's sexuality as well as their gender roles in this society through images.Hoch creates unsettling view as she addresses the feaars and hopes for new possibilities for the mordern German women.She also addresse's beauty and youth and the control of the roles and modes through mass merchandising as well as the polical and visual meginalizing of jews, blacks and women.Her work's were used for political impact.

Expressionism was the domainant style in Germany after WWI. Abstract expressionism was also commonly associated with postwar American art. Some German expressionists where Max Beckmann, ottoDix, Gerorge Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Edvard Munch.Expressionist artistic style in whichh the ratist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that object and events around them.German artists used colour and distored form for the sake of expressing the artists deeply felt personal reactions to life.

Photomontage had a huge impact on dada. Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoch discovered the idea of liberating the photograph from itself. It was cut, pasted in a imaginative composition and collaged images borrowed from books, posters and magazine photographic images.This was affected way of conveying their bitingly political images. They were anxious for mass reproduction and dissmination of their work, for the sake of political impact.

zara a German writer , Richard Hulsenbeck, Jean Arp from Alsace and Hans Richter. It's proponents came from all parts of Europe and the Unitied states. The dadaists were not content to make art they wanted to affect all aspects of western civilization. They were not interested in writing books and painting pictures which a public would admire. In a uninvolved manner, rather they aimed to provoke the public into reacting to their activities. For them a negative reaction was better than a passive acceptance. As Ball,Hugo express's his view "that is humiliating age has not succedding in winning our respect".They wanted to open the way to a new art,mordern art and a new society by undermining and emposing what they saw a state cultural conventions of a decayed European civilization. Which led the world into the conflagration of the great war.

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