Dada

D

ada was an artistic and literary movement that started in 1918.  It was mainly brought together around Switzerland then eventually spread to Berlin.  The theme of it was mainly war as artists, writers and poets from that era met to collaborate to make Dada art.

This image was created by John Heartfield who worked for communist publications, the daily Die Rote Fahne and the weekly magazine Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ).  John Heartfield uses Dada as a weapon to expression political issues.

This photograph is typical of Dada style.  It is called “Adolf, the Superman: Swallows Gold and Spouts Junk” and as made in 1932.

The title of the photo indicates the rubbish laws and rules that Hitler created, the post production to this image shows money inside Hitler’s body which relates to him taking all the possessions from the Jews then using a photo where he is shouting indicates to one of his ‘powerful’ speeches where he talked rubbish.