To The Age It's Art, 1870 - 1920
             Dada is the artistic and literary movement reflecting a widespread nihilistic protest against all aspects of Western culture in the late 19th century. In their efforts to express the negation of all-current aesthetic and social values, the Dadaists frequently used artistic methods that were deliberately incomprehensible. Although the Dadaists employed revolutionary techniques, their revolt against standards was based values on a profound belief, stemming from the romantic tradition, in the essential goodness of humanity when uncorrupted by society. The art of the age mocked conventional modes of expression. Expressionism, in arts, is a movement or tendency that strives to express a subjective view of the world through feelings and emotions rather than to depict reality or nature objectively.
             Sources 1 and 2 represent conventional artwork from the late 19th century. Ingres gave the human figure rhythmic flow and included harmony in his paintings, which exemplified the traditional values and modes of expression. Seurat, Georges was a French painter, who practiced neoimpressionism. He rejected the soft, irregular brushstrokes of impressionism and was in favor of pointillism. Pointillism digresses from the lifelike paintings of the previous era. In source 3, for example, little attention is paid to the individual characteristics of the people. This may have embodied Durkheim and Weber's theories of the authority of the individual by the state causing a loss in human creativity and personal autonomy. Van Gogh's work represents the ideal of expressionism, which is the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting. Source 4 tries to capture the human essence and emotions of his subjects. In source 5 expressionism, the subject matter represents Gauguin's interest in dreams and unconscious. Source 6 shows imaginative subject matter and depictions of fantasy. This demonstrated Freud&apo...