“Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the First Epoch of the Weimar Beer-Belly Culture” vs. “What Makes Today's Homes so Different so Appealing?”
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“Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the First Epoch of the Weimar Beer-Belly Culture” vs. “What Makes Today’s Homes so Different so Appealing?”
Society is strange. We all know this. Since the beginning of time the way people interact as a whole society can be very unusual and many artists have picked up on this fact. Two examples would be Hannah Hoch and Richard Hamilton. They both took peculiar aspects of the society they lived in and portrayed them using photomontage in the works “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the First Epoch of the Weimar Beer-Belly Culture” 1919, and “What Makes Today’s Homes so Different so Appealing?”, 1956. Hannah Hoch was part of the Dada movement, which reacted to the horrors of WWI and focused on the absurdity surrounded around that, while Richard Hamilton was part of the pre-pop movement, which focused on mass consumerism. Both found society a bit off the wall in respect to those aspects and wanted to send a message through their art about it.
Dada was an absurd art movement. The effects that WWI had on society were unbelievable to the Dadaists. The new technology if the era led to a war nobody had ever seen before. Gases, airplanes, new guns, ect. all led to devastating amounts of casualties and wounded people including a great number of civilians. These horrors of war brought about by the industrial revolution left the Dadaists questioning “the establishment”. If all the things they are teaching and saying lead to this sort of destruction, how could it be anything but nonsense? They felt that Europe was morally bankrupt and the way they wanted to convey this message was to make ‘anti-art”. The structure of society was clearly faulted to them, therefore so was their idea of art. That is why in 1916 in Zurich the Dada movement started and soon spread across Europe. Incorporated in this anti-art movements was a new technique called the photomontage. Photomontage “uses cut-up photographs, usually from newspapers,...
Society is strange. We all know this. Since the beginning of time the way people interact as a whole society can be very unusual and many artists have picked up on this fact. Two examples would be Hannah Hoch and Richard Hamilton. They both took peculiar aspects of the society they lived in and portrayed them using photomontage in the works “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the First Epoch of the Weimar Beer-Belly Culture” 1919, and “What Makes Today’s Homes so Different so Appealing?”, 1956. Hannah Hoch was part of the Dada movement, which reacted to the horrors of WWI and focused on the absurdity surrounded around that, while Richard Hamilton was part of the pre-pop movement, which focused on mass consumerism. Both found society a bit off the wall in respect to those aspects and wanted to send a message through their art about it.
Dada was an absurd art movement. The effects that WWI had on society were unbelievable to the Dadaists. The new technology if the era led to a war nobody had ever seen before. Gases, airplanes, new guns, ect. all led to devastating amounts of casualties and wounded people including a great number of civilians. These horrors of war brought about by the industrial revolution left the Dadaists questioning “the establishment”. If all the things they are teaching and saying lead to this sort of destruction, how could it be anything but nonsense? They felt that Europe was morally bankrupt and the way they wanted to convey this message was to make ‘anti-art”. The structure of society was clearly faulted to them, therefore so was their idea of art. That is why in 1916 in Zurich the Dada movement started and soon spread across Europe. Incorporated in this anti-art movements was a new technique called the photomontage. Photomontage “uses cut-up photographs, usually from newspapers,...