assiment 1

Assignment 1

Name of artist

Hannah Hoch

Pictures

1. Dada Panorma1919

2. Beautiful girl 1920

3. Grotesque 1963

            Hannah Hoch was born on November 1, 1889 in Gotha, Germany. She stared to attend College around 1912. The name of the college that she attended was College of arts and craft. There she studied glass design and graphic arts. Then three years later in 1915 she kind of changed paths. when she met Raoul Hausmann. He was involved with the dada movement at that time. This is how Hoch got involved in to the dada movement. Hausmann and Hoch started of from being friends and then later on became lovers, although in the end they went there own ways.

           

After her relationship with Hausmann ended she had varies other partners. I also want to mention that she was bisexual. In 1938 Hoch married Kurt Matthie.  Then 6 years she divorced him. Her most famous piece of work was “Cut with the Kitchen knife”. She died on May 31, 1978.

            The first piece that I picked was the first picture. The name of the picture is Dada Panorma. the time when it was produced was 1919. In the picture you see a bunch of people from the army. You also see a couple of man with out there shirt. On the left top corner you see two bodies and three heads. The heads are bigger than the bodies. I think that represents the Dadaism in the picture. Since WW1 stated in 1914 the dada movement was well in to play. So the fact that dada movement was supposed to put down the military and nationalism. I think that is want is being portrayed in the picture. The picture is making abnormal picture of the military symbolically.

           

The name of the next picture that I choose was The beautiful girl. This picture was produced in 1920. This is a lot different from the first one. This is a picture of a woman, who is given all sorts of abnormal characteristics. Some are abstract such as the BMW sign and the wheel. Yet others are disproportionate to her body like the big hair. On top that the place where there is supposed to be a head there is something that looks like a bulb. I think these characteristics represent Dadaism, but it is different from the first picture. The first picture is discrediting the military and the second is discrediting people’s notion towards women.  

The third picture is similar to the second. The name of the third picture is Grotesque. The picture was produced in 1963 a lot more time difference then the first two. This picture has two set of female legs. You don’t see the entire legs, just a little above the knee, and that is where faces are attached to the legs. One face is of a female and the other is of a male. I think that this represents the dada theme but at the same time it is changeling people normal perception of male and female. I think this comes back to the concept of Nihilism.