This includes all movements and multiple art works + artist per movement covered in the IEB SAGS, (dada, surrealism, abstract expressionism, minimalism, pop art, super realism, polly street, rorke’s drift, South African resistance, contemporary European art)
Dada
Adolf the Superman, by John Heartfield —
Is a photomontage in which Hitler is shown as a see-through piggy bank
Fact:
Images forecasted and reflect the chaos Germany experienced in the
1920’s and 1930’s as it slipped towards social and political catastrophe,
communists and nazis cashed in the press, at the ballot box and on the
streets.
Heartfield transformed photomontage into a powerful mass communication
Montage was distributed as a posted on walls all over Berlin, nazis were
infuriated by the appearance of poster
heartfield was not in hiding he was a resident in Berlin. The nazis knew
where he lived and he was frequently tortured
Argument:
Hilter performs political alchemy
For heartfeild , he converts gold and financial contributions from war
investors into garbage to stir up the German people
X-rays represent a new invention. It was used to here to expose Hitler as
greedy and corrupt from the inside
Photomontage function as anti-propaganda. The artists iconic
syembolyzim competed with the nazi swastika
The Beautiful Girl, by Hannah Hoch —
Is a photomontage in which a woman is combined with machinery
Fact:
Messages of the works (not being verbal) often overlooked by censors
Nightmarish distortions given the “truth” of photography
Juxtaposition of images resembles early experiments in film editing
Photomontage = a collage of photographic images clipped from
newspaper and magazines
Argument:
Images of woman highly distorted, like a broken mirror
, Women lose their identity as they are forced to on roles and disguises
Machines often low over the figures and disposers them
Shows a word that is poisoned at the root
Surrealism
Gala and the angelus of millet immediately preceding the arrival of the
conic anamorphoses, by Salvador Dali —
Is a complex space that symbolises the destruction of war
Fact:
Dali is a death figure
Leads spectator into nightmarish underworld
Doubles as a portrait of his wife, Gala
Dali is creeping through the door with a lobster on his head, additionally
making this a self portrait
Argument:
Has a sense of something sinister (sinister atmosphere)
Has garish colours
When the door is opened it breaks into a place of hell
Blood red table creates a sinister meaning
The Rape, by Rene Magritte —
Is a woman’s face that has been transformed into a “genital face”
Fact:
Influenced by the objectification of De Chirico. These depictions led to
surrealist objects like Kurt Seligmann’s Ultra-Furniture.
The woman’s identity is related by curiosity directed at a male spectator
Implied genitalia is a weapon that generates fear and resembles a death
head
Artist has recreated the image of a woman that exists in a man’s mind.
Argument:
Is the artist objectifying woman or is he questioning their objectification
Questions how woman and the female body are seen and perceived
Creates a question that is: is merely looking at a woman’s naked body in
itself a kind of rape
Face has no eyes, nose or mouth, but rather breast, the navel and pelvic
area suggesting that men don’t expect women to speak for themselves
but rather to surrender erotic body parts without a word
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