Conclusion The pieces which I have previously analysed are obviously politically triggered. However, the question which I have been exploring throughout this blog series is, does the artist who produces the politically based artwork act as a visual politician or as a social critic? If acting as the latter, I would have to conclude thatContinue reading “Modern Artist or Visual Politician? – Dada (part 6)”
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Modern Artist or Visual Politician?- Dada (part 5)
Analysis of ‘Cut with the kitchen knife Dada through the last Epoch of Weimar Beer-Belly Culture in Germany’ by Hannah Höch Last summer I was lucky enough to visit Berlin with my family, who I am still having to apologise to after turning our 4 day family holiday into an intense gallery hunt, as IContinue reading “Modern Artist or Visual Politician?- Dada (part 5)”
Modern Artist or Visual Politician? – Dada (part 4)
Analysis of ‘Dada Ernst’ by Hannah Höch Höch, Hannah. Dada-Ernst. 1920. Photomontage. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.[1] In my blog post, ‘Modern Artist or Visual Politician- Dada (part 2)’, I discussed how an artist is able to adapt similar characteristics to that of a politician when cultivating a piece of political artwork that evokes the audienceContinue reading “Modern Artist or Visual Politician? – Dada (part 4)”
Modern Artist or Visual Politician? – Dada (part 3)
Analysis of ‘Da-Dandy’ by Hannah Höch Höch, Hannah, Da-Dandy. 1919. Photomontage. Private Collection, Berlin Hannah Höch was a Dada artist, who is famous for her feminist based photomontages, which she used to draw the public’s eye to the problem of mis-representation of women in the media. Höch worked as a designer of sewing patternsContinue reading “Modern Artist or Visual Politician? – Dada (part 3)”
Modern Artist or Visual Politician? – Dada (part 1)
Over the short period in which I have decided to openly pursue a career in art, I have been asked on a number of occasions to what, in my opinion, it means to be an artist. After the seemingly hundredth time of being asked this repetitive question I began to, and to my dismay, questionContinue reading “Modern Artist or Visual Politician? – Dada (part 1)”
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