ABDC by Raul Housman

This is an A4 acrylic artist’s copy of the self-portrait, 'ABDC' by Raoul Hausmann. This piece is a photomontage and an example of the Dada art movement. Dadaism was born from a negative reaction to the horrors of World War One; it rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense and irrationality, moving itself further away from the realism that had controlled the arts in the past. I was particularly attracted to the haphazard nature of the image and the rustic colours.