Using inspiration from the DADA movement, the message 'the impossible body standards' is conveyed through this piece.
A statement poster speaking out against ‘impossible body standards’ using DADA collage techniques.
My collage features an embodied message that is “Body standards are impossible.” I used my various cutouts from fashion magazines, posters and printed old-fashioned newspaper clips.
My end goal was to create a chaotic magazine like cover. In my collage you can see the different parts of different people all askew. This is to create the mood of “impossibility” simply because no humans body can look like the way it has been portrayed in the collage.
Along the top of the collage an unorganized “Hollywood” is spelt using all different letter cutouts. This is to create a messy idea that Hollywood is the big influencer in creating how we should view our bodies and what the perfect idea of beauty is when they’re hardly perfect themselves.
ABOUT DADA
The DADA movement was created after WWI as a means of communicating an explosive, negative reaction towards the war. Made from cutouts of various medias such as posters or magazines, they were arranged in a non-calculated order that would make the viewer feel uncomfortable because of the lack of organization in the piece. These ideas were intended to be chaotic, surreal or abstract. The creators even called this “anti-art” because of radical ideas against societal norms, similar to the chaotic act of protesting, the DADA art conveys exactly that mood.
The DADA movement first emerged in Europe by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings. Both having experienced the horrors of what the war did to their home country Germany they had radical, negative mindsets towards it. Making them “Anti-war.” The work of Dadaists can all be linked to an anti-movement whereas the chaos of its appearance speaks volumes to a chaotic, revolutionary audience, who also may share the same opinions as the creator. Most DADA art has no proper organization compared to a regular painting of a person one might see. DADA art has no boundaries, and it doesn’t always aim to communicate a goal, however some DADA style art doesn’t have an underlying goal.
created using DADA photomontage and collage techniques.