Assignment # 6

1. Describe a Dada artwork?

     -  Dada was created to protest against World War 1 and stop their horrible actions. The Dadaists rejected most moral, social, political, and aesthetic values. In their art work they focused their attention on chaos and destruction. They strived to show the absurdity of the western world’s social and political situation. Marcel Duchamp was one of the most radical Dadaists in the twentieth century. He used ready-mades to illustrate mass-produced objects as artworks. He created the “L.H.O.O.Q. from Boite-en-Valise” which was Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” with a drawing of a mustache and beard face.  When saying L.H.O.O.Q fast in French and then translated in English you hear “she is a hot tail”. He showed his irreverence to one of the most famous paintings all over the world to make an attempt to help people out of their unthinking acceptance of dominant values.

 

2. What were the influences of Jacob Lawrence?

    - In the depression of the 1930s the Works Progress Administration (WPA) set up community that Jacob Lawrence worked and created his art. Jacob believed that art should be a quest for both personal and communal identity. He did not use the French Cubism of Braque and Picasso he did his own work on African art and made it in his own unique way. He used a special style that made his art work stand out from everyone else’s called dynamic Cubism. In this painting “General Toussaint l’Ouverture Defeats English at Saline” which was one of a series of painting. In 1804 the black figure in this particular painting led a revolt that made Haiti the first independent nation in Latin America.