Part I Dada The Beautiful Girl Hannah Hoch photomontage Represents the New Women and how they gained hope from the technological industrial advancements being made during the early 20th century The Art Critic Raoul Hausman The piece challenges the idea of the traditional art critic as well as a critic s motivations and quali cations for deciding what is fashionable or acceptable art The art critic also can be interpreted as a representation of society as a whole at this time Hausmann did not agree with the super ciality and lack of individuality found in the Weimar Republic He also was against the in uence of money especially in a capitalistic society Hausmann supported new different forms of art He did not like the bias of critics toward the traditional styles Hausmann wanted to show the people that he was more in uential than he should be By distorting the appearance of the critic Hausmann is showing that the critic s opinions are also distorted and irrelevant The eyes of the art critic drawn on paper cannot properly see art as they should The critic only sees what he thinks the woman to the right a member of high society wants him to see Therefore whatever comes out of his mouth is unimportant and untrue to Hausmann The letters in the background like the words of the critic are loud and incomprehensible Hausmann chose to make the pencil so large because it shows how much power the critic has The pencil is the art critic s weapon He can write whatever he chooses Interpreting art is subjective and Hausmann believed that no man should be quali ed to determine what art is good or bad Sorry about how long this is I thought it was a really good analysis Post Impressionism Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh Observation of the night sky Dark structure is supposed to represent a sense of isolation between size What it is is left to interpretation The city is supposed to be peaceful and secluded Sunday Afternoon on the island Seurat Pointilism Captures an interesting glimpse of wealthy parisian life in the 19th century It was a getaway from the Parisian community Famous for the portions and the use of color Still Life with Basket of Apples Paul Cezanne Focus on a tilted perspective and mis proportions vivid colors Still life with Plaster Cupid Paul Cezanne intricate composition of tilted lines and planes but the colors are harmonious causing for ambiguous spaces since they appear to belong together Surrealism Love Song Giorgio de Chirico This painting brings together incongruous and unrelated objects the head of a Classical Greek statue an oversized rubber glove a green ball and a train shrouded in darkness silhouetted against a bright blue sky By subverting the logical presence of objects de Chirico created what he termed metaphysical paintings representations of what lies beyond the physical world Cloaked in an atmosphere of anxiety and melancholy de Chirico s humanoid forms vacuous architecture shadowy passages and eerily elongated streets evoke the profound absurdity of a universe torn apart by World War I Guernica Pablo Picasso Guernica is primarily a war painting offering a visual account of the devastating and chaotic impact of war on both men and women in this case speci cally on civilian life and communities Picasso completed the painting of Guernica in 1937 a time of widespread political unrest not just in Spain but worldwide World War II would begin just a couple years later and would further decimate the European continent as a whole In Guernica we see several victims of the bombing some still living some already dead A gure sprawled supine in the foreground of the painting appears to be a corpse and is framed on both sides by living victims with their heads thrown back wailing in agony The gure to the left is a mother clutching a baby who appears to have died during the bombing Spanish Dream caused by the Flight of aa Bee around Pomegranate a Second before Wakening up Dream of a Virgin Salvador Dali Dream purportedly depicts Gala Dal s wife in the midst of a dream The bee and pomegranate of the title hover below Gala s body The sh tigers and ri e all seem poised to attack her but they clearly stand as symbols of unconscious desires Dal s explicit focus on a dream as the stated content of the painting grounds his chaotic vision rmly in the Surrealist tradition Henry Ford Hospital Frida Kahlo On July 4th 1932 Frida suffered a miscarriage in the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit In this disturbing work Kahlo paints herself lying on her back in a hospital bed after a miscarriage The gure in the painting is unclothed the sheets beneath her are bloody and a large tear falls from her left eye The bed and its sad inhabitant oat in an abstract space circled by six images relating to the miscarriage All of the images are tied to blood red laments that she holds against her stomach as if they were umbilical cords The main image is a perfectly formed male fetus little Dieguito she had longed to have The orchid was a gift from Diego When I painted it I had the idea of a sexual thing mixed with the sentimental Frida said The snail she said alludes to the slow paced miscarriage The salmon pink plaster female torso she said was her idea of explaining the insides of a woman The cruel looking machine she invented to explain the mechanical part of the whole business Finally in the lower right corner is her fractured pelvis that made it impossible for her to have children The Two Fridas Frida Kahlo Shortly after her divorce from Diego Rivera Frida completed this self portrait of two different personalities In her diary Frida writes that this painting originated from her memory of an imaginary childhood friend Later she admitted it records the emotions surrounding her separation and martial crisis On the right the part of her person which was respected and loved by Diego is the Mexican Frida in Tehuana costume In her hand she holds an amulet bearing the portrait of Diego as a child On the left a more rather European Frida in a lacy white Victorian wedding dress the Frida that Diego abandoned The hearts of the two women lie exposed a device Frida often used to express her pain The unloved Frida s heart is broken while the other Frida s heart is whole From the amulet that Frida is holding springs a vein that travels through both women s hearts and is nally cut off by the surgical pincers held in the lap of the rejected Frida In despair Frida tries to stop the ow of blood from Diego but it keeps