Hoch Response

I find the Dada movement interesting. This is not my favorite kind of work, so I have a hard time drawing a connection to many of these pieces. I can, however, truly appreciate her innovation and her craftsmanship. Visually, these pieces are incredibly stimulating. There is an interest in them upon immediate sight which draws the viewer to the piece. However, from there, I get a little lost.

The one piece that I do understand is her Tailor’s Flowers. This piece is about the craftsmanship of women. Women were not as equally accepted at the time as equal craftsman to men. They were still viewed as inferior. However, I can see how she would feel the need to construct this piece. As a woman entering a movement in which there were only men, she was not readily accepted. Any woman will understand her frustrations. The article says that she was one of the first to ever experiment with the idea of photomontage so for the men to not accept her in a field, which she helped to start would be incredibly frustrating. Therefore, this piece has a special pull to it. To emphasize the beauty of a woman’s craft was unusual for the time, and therefore beautiful.

I am posting a picture, but I still do not feel any attraction to this work. It is hard for me to get a strong emotion from these works.