Quiz #1

1.  Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.It is also total rejection of established laws and institutions. I don't think it is correct to say that the belief is nothing because to believe all values are baseless is a belief.

2.According to Nietzsche the difference between Greco-Roman value and Judeo-Christian value is that they were almost completely opposite of each other. The Christians developed moral beliefs which were opposed to the beliefs of the Romans. He also argued that the Christians had resentment towards the Romans also that Nihilism is in Christianity. Nietzsche believes that the Greco- Roman values are better for living a full and healthy life because he described the Christians as being weaker than the Romans.

3. Dada art is said to be Pessimistic and  Bizarre because of the way each art piece was depicted, each artwork had their own unique element and depicted various events in one image.Most of Dada's art displayed both the good and the bad in whichever piece.It may be called Bizarre because of the images used to create a story.
In the German Society Dada artists tries to discredit and undermine the Cultural Societies

4. In the film "The Cabinet"  Dr. Caligari  if considering owning a slave a job i would say he has two a slave master and a Asylum Doctor.


5. Siddhartha left his father because he felt like he had learned all he needed from his father and he was in search of finding himself. He needed to go out into the world and experience certain situations for himself in order to appreciate certain teachings and the value.


6. In the film "The Cabinet" Cesare dies of exhaustion after he refused to kill Jane so he was on the run and after he got her out the clear he passed away.


7. The River is important to Siddhartha because this is where he had contemplated taking his own life but did not and then fell asleep by the river only to wake up appreciating his life more. He believes that the river provided him with some wisdom, he believes that the River is where he found peace.

Siddhartha

AWAKENING

He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colourful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself. All of this, all this yellow and blue, river and forest, entered Siddhartha for the first time through the eyes, was no longer a spell of Mara, was no longer the veil of Maya, was no longer a pointless and coincidental diversity of mere appearances, despicable to the deeply thinking Brahman, who scorns diversity, who seeks unity. Blue was blue, river was river, and if also in the blue and the river, in Siddhartha, the singular and divine lived hidden, so it was still that very divinity's way and purpose, to be here yellow, here blue, there sky, there forest, and here Siddhartha. The purpose and the essential properties were not somewhere behind the things, they were in them, in everything.

      This passage shows the growth of Siddhartha how he took a little bit of teaching from everywhere he went and incorporated this into his lifestyle. Siddhartha was now coming to the realization of what the world was really like also that he was looking at the world from his perspective as opposed to letting someone analyze it for him. He realizes how beautiful the world is hence the use of colors to give a vivid description of what he was seeing. He also realizes that relying on only his teachers and ignoring the world will not let him reach enlightenment, he realizes that the world will help him in achieving his goal and provide necessary teachings.

      I choose this passage because in my opinion it reflects on everyday life many times individuals live their lives through the teachings of others other than creating a path of their own. Often times individuals portray others because they have yet to find their own identity and figure that using the life experience and teachings of another individual will help in their day to day life. Individuals sometimes fail to appreciate natures beauty and how it contributes to our everyday living. 

Dada: Raoul Hausmann

    Raoul Hausmann was born in Vienna who then moved to Berlin with his parents at age fourteen in 1901. his father who was a professional conservator and painter was his earliest art trainer. as a young man Raoul Hausmann was intrested in the goals of the emerging expressionist movement in Germany. after meeting Johannes boader, an ecentric architect and another future member of Dada in 1905 and Elfride Shaeffer a violinist who he married in 1908, a year after the birth of their daughter he enrolled in a private art school where he stayed until 1911. Most of his work was considered expressionist colleagues, because he initially welcomed the war believing it to be necessary cleansing of a calcified society although being an Austrian citizen living in Germany he was spared the draft.
  
  The first art piece Raoul Hausmann's self portrait of the Dadosopher, collage-photomontage, 1920 portrays a man sitting in a chair but seems to be robot like, the image has the body of a human but the upper part where the head is supposed to be is replaced by a clock which seems to be ran by motors. This image also looks like an individual in an electric chair and the clock might signify the countdown.


  The second image Raoul Hausmann, Dada wins, 1920 displays numerous activities taking place, this image is like a collage its bits and pieces of events put together on one photograph. The image depicts four gentlemen obviously of different stature. The image in the background looks like a image after the war.


  In the third image  Raoul Hausmann, Two Nudes on a Beach [Hedwig Mankiewitz and Vera Broido], 1930, this image to me depicts some form of protest standing for what they believe in. It also shows courage and also that these individuals embrace their body.

Dada: Raoul Hausmann

Raoul Hausmann's Self Portrait of the Dadasopher, collage- photomontage, 1920

                                                     Raoul Hausmann: Dada Siegt 1920

                                             Raoul Hausmann: Vera Broido 1930