Online Assignment #5 Dada Art

1. Dada is an art movement to criticize or make fun of society through art which began in the first World War. It's a way to say that the world that we live in is dangerous and doesn't make sense anymore.

Marcel Duchamp and his Readymade created by using the everyday and ordinary object "based on a reaction if visual indifference, with at the same time a total absence of good or bad taste..." he said. The snow shovel that he hung from his ceiling is called "In Advance of A Broken Arm" He picked the shovel because he was so unfamiliar with it. Moved from France to the United State, he had never seen a shovel before in his life. This piece refers to the shovel's function to remove the the snow from the ground, with the idea or an assumption, if the snow doesn't get remove from the ground, people might fall down and break an arm, that's why he called this "In Advance of a Broken Arm".


2. The painting by Jacob Lawrence from the "Migration" series describes about the biggest migration in the US. The painting is called "There Were Riots", it seems to me that they were fighting. At that time there were still a lot of racism going on and also labor. Looks like the white men were trying to harm the black people. This painting shows how much struggle they have to go through during migration period.

All the paintings that Lawrence did including the "Migration" series were influenced by Goya, Orozco, Harlem Renaissance and African American history.