The Dada movement started after World War I as a protest to the horrors many artists endured. Dadaists mocked Western society with absurd art that ignored traditional artistic values. Marcel Duchamp was a Dadaist that used everyday objects, known as readymades, that wouldn't normally be considered art. One such artwork was In Advanced of the Broken Arm (pictured above). Duchamp signed a snow shovel and called it art. This challenges the idea that art something that has to be made by the artist. It also challenged the idea that art has to be aesthetically pleasing.
Jacob Lawrence is considered the most important African American artist of the 1900s. He spent his teenage years in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance. Lawrence often depicted African Americans, such as his Migration Series. He called his style "dynamic cubism". His influences include the discrimination that blacks experienced, poverty, crime, and his hopes for his community.
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