Hannah Hoch

Hannah Hoch was born on November 1 1889, Gotha Germany. In 1978 she died in Berlin.

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/artists/hoch.shtm

She is best known for her photo-montage where she uses imagery and combines male and female within them. Her pieces are about the political Weimar German Government. She's inspired by pablo Picasso and Kurt Schwitters. These artists works make her to think about the compositions of her pieces where she actually shared dynamic and layered style with them. Her art pieces focused more on narrowly of gender issues.

http://www.artfortune.com/hannah-hoch/artist-129538/

Dada was influence by the world war one. Artists produce horror artworks to shock people. Seeing people reaction to this piece of movement encouraged the artists to carry on making more works as they were fed up about the world as they saw no point of it happening, they didn't want to be part of it. So they tried to rebelliously make works that have something to do with nationalism, rationalism and materialism. This movement was abstract, whimsical, colourful, wittily sarcastic and expressionism. They have made surrealists art disappeared but some Dada artists has moved to surrealists like the Chapman Brothers who was influence by this movement.

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm

So looking at what was happening in 1916 Hannah Hoch decided to be influence by this and  speak out about her emotions about these rules through her work.


Das schone Madchen {The Beautiful Girl} 1920
Collage


The composition of the work looks centred. The objects are out of scale, she might have done this so that she could make the most important objects stands out well and the smaller size objects might look it doesn't look important. The piece looks quite packed. Some lines are bold and strong. The background looks very vintage making the whole objects on it to look old apart from the white light bulb that seem to stand out really well. The focal point on this piece is the white bulb. The artists might have done to make it see like the most important object she wants the viewers to pay attention to.