Dada and jacob

 hannah hoch c. 1920 Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany. Collage of pasted papaers.

  Hannah Hoch c was the tip of spear of this particular art form known as photomontage. After World War one started, several continents were in the states of chaos. In protest against this chaos of interwar period, Dada was introduced to overturn the conventional arts, redefine values in arts, and create meaningless arts as new art. As one of the most important Dadaists of Dada movement in Berlin, Hoch’s photomontages addressed many social phenomenon critically at that time. In this artwork particularly, Weimar New Woman’s liberation and disconnected levels of societies in Weimar Germany.

  Hoch placed one of her images on the left corner below with a map of Europe, shows a progress of woman’s liberty revolution. This is her statement of vision that women, as well as Dada, has to become an impact of modern society. Combining images from magazines, newspapers, cutting them apart and reordering them. Hoch sardonically reflected the various, but disconnected societies broken down in Weimar Germany. 

  Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series is also related to World War 1.  In this painting, a unity was created through the use of similar shapes and colors. Repetition of lines on the floor, same colors of worker’s uniforms, rectangle shapes of all tools all together and serve the purpose of bringing a sense of unity. The figures of workers becomes larger from left to right, this creates a small directional force in vision.

  Jacob Lawrence received numbers of significant recognitions through his life. Not only he was the most celebrated African-American painters in 20^th-century, more importantly, his legacies are able to be found in many museums near us, and continuously, influence us through his artworks and history within them.