assignment # 6 Dada

The Dada artwork came to be because artists were protesting against world war 1 and there art work expressed how they felt about it and thought about the war. They came up with the name because an artist stuck a knife inr a dictionary and they thought that the name suited there work and beacs. The Dada style is more of a rebellious attitude than a cohesive style and it also broke away from tradition. The Dada artwork is more like abstract things that make an everyday thing be different or abnormal and to viewers it looks a lot like nonsense
The artwork from Jacob Lawrence  were based on African American history. In his first painting its more like Dada in a way because you can see that all but one figure looks normal while the rest seem to be missing their heads. Most of Jacob Lawrence paintings he uses a lot of shapes and colors. He also created his own type of painting style by combining two styles together. His paintings had different types of messages like some of the messages he sent out in his paintings were of education, what happens to people who migrate and also how woman were portrayed back in the old times. Jacob Lawrence was painting based on expedites of black labor in Southern U.S. He was inspired by Goya, Daumier, Arosco and Harlem Renaissance that he decided to make his own style. He also was interested in Matisse work because the color, flat space and the he used pattern interested him.