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After learning about Semiotics and Abstraction in this week’s lecture, we put the skills and knowledge we have gained into practice in the tutorial workshop. Initially, I had done up a collage in tutorial but I wasn’t satisfied with it. I had a lot of fun doing the initial collage, but I realised in the midst of the activity that I 1. Did not take any progress shots, which wasn't that major of an issue compared to 2 2. Was not meaningfully participating and reflecting over the techniques I had applied. I did not examine the effect that applying scale, deconstruction and repetition had on the images in isolation or as a whole. I was too absorbed in making the final image look good and that the elements look harmonious that I can't believe I overlook such an important part of the process. Bad Si Jia!! Still in the spirit of mistakeism, I will be attaching an image of the failed experiment here: Thus, I decided to explore more in terms of scale, repetition, and deconstr...

According to the lecture, Dadaists used collage and ‘found’ materials as a central focus in their work, recognising the potential for juxtaposing images in startling and violent ways as a means of highlighting t he perceived irrationality of modern life and responding to the horrors of war. Many aspects of their style, technique and aesthetics were borrowed from Futurists, in particular the art of typography. The Dada publications established the movement's visual identity, and its strong design signature, with a rebellious nature of Dada. Essentially, 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. (In Progress)