Throughout my essay I have decided to focused on movements and how they could be perceived as rebellious. The first movement that I focus on is Pop art. Pop art is a movement that emerged in the 1950's. It was a movement going against the abstract expressionists. It was a popular culture which reminded me of old magazines and comics. Pop art relies on extracting material from its context and associating it with other subjects for reflection.
Why do I see pop art as a form of rebellion? It's vibrant, unique and expressive. It is an era that is very different to any other movement. It was a movement to express in a vibrant more friendly way.
Another movement that I focused on was dadaism. This is one that especially grabbed my attention because it was the mark of the end of war. It was a movement that went against the war. This was an era that rebelled against the horrors of the world war. Dadaism was an anti war art movement that also fought against sexism and racism but mainly focusing on the war and its effects.
"Dada was the first conceptual art movement where the focus of the artists was not on crafting aesthetically pleasing objects but on making works that often upended bourgeois sensibilities and that generated difficult questions about society, the role of the artist, and the purpose of art."
Dadaism is seen as a rebellion because it was an era that went against the war. It was using already made objects and combining them to create art. Dada or Dadaism was a form of artistic anarchy of disgust for the social, political and cultural values of the time.
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