Dada vs.

Pop Art
The similarities and differences between the both
By: Darya Naumova 8CC

So, What is Pop Art?

Pop art is a style of Art, originated from the United States, in the mid-1950s.
It is when artists use popular images, advertisements, newspaper, etc. A lot of the times, images are removed from its original place and/or combined with non-related material. Some people like to think of Pop Art as a comic book art, because it often uses bold lines and bubble writing in it.

Who is Dada?
Dada is a 20th century art style, originated from Switzerland in 1916. It is quite similar to Pop Art in some way. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, rules and intuition It was began by a large group of famous artists.

Dada usually involves art like: visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestoes, art theory, theatre, and graphic design.

Dada

Pop Art

Duchamp Fountaine Dada, 1917

Marilyn Diptych Andy Warhol, 1962

Similarity
They both used black and white colors. Even though Andy Warhol used bright colors on the left of his art. But Andy still used black and white colors to show the grief after the death of Marlyn Monroe

Difference
They were both taken at a completely different time, which affect the style they used. Dada had art which didnt obey the rules, because back in the 1900s people didnt use objects or statues as art. Lastly, Andy Warhol has really bright and colorful colors in his painting, while Dada doesnt.

Dada

Pop Art

Hoch-Cut With the Kitchen Knife Hannah Hoch, 1919

Three Flags Jasper Johns, 1958

Similarity
I think that one of the main similarities in between two arts (which came into my head first), is the fact that they both use more than one image. You can see that in Jasper Johns Art, he used the same image but multiple times. Just like with Dadas, he used images which looked like each other.

Difference
I think that one of the main differences in the two arts, is that they both have a different way of laying out the images: You can see that in the Three flags image, it is only three pictures underneath each other. But if you look at Dadas image, you see that they made it look like a collage of various pictures and words.

Dada

Pop Art

kleine Dada soire - Theo van Doesburg, 1922

Whaam! - Roy Lichtenstein, 1963

Similarity

To be honest, I dont really find a very big similarity in the two. I think that they actually look completely different from each other.

Difference
I think that the difference in the two paintings, is that they are a totally different style. In the pop art one, they used really bold lines. But in the Dada image, they used irregular lines which were sometimes bold and sometimes thin. Also, on the right painting, there is an actual image drawn. But on the one by Dada, it was just words.

Conclusion & My opinion

In my opinion, I think that Pop Art and Dada are very similar. The only difference that I find in both of them, are: 1. Dada uses quite random images, which dont even belong to him sometimes. 2. Pop art was, most of the time, drawn correctly and following all of the rules of art.

These are a list of links and websites that I used to research about Pop Art and Dada:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I_was_a_Rich_Man%27s_Plaything_1947.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roy_Lichtenstein_Drowning_Girl.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Duchamp_Fountaine.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hoch-Cut_With_the_Kitchen_Knife.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol http://blog.artbyveny.com/andy-warhols-famous-marilyn-monroe-painting/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Diptych