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DADAISM
Revision
Beginnings
• It is a post World War I cultural movement
• It appeared in:–Visual arts–Literature (mainly poetry)–Theatre–Graphic design
Beginnings
• It was a protest against the barbarism of the War
• Dadaists believed War was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both:– Art– Everyday society
Beginnings
• Dadaist works are characterized by:– Deliberate irrationality– Rejection of the prevailing standards of
art
• It influenced on later movements including Surrealism
philosophy
• According to its proponents, Dadaá was not art
• It was anti-Art• For everything that art stood for,
Dadáaá was to represent the opposite
Philo philosophy
• Dadaá supposed that– Where art was concerned with
aesthetics, Dadaá ignored them – If art is to have at least an implicit or
latent message, Dada strives to have no meaning
• If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dadaá offends
Influence
• Interpretation of Dadaá is dependent entirely on the viewer.
• This movement was highly influential in Modern Art.
• It became a commentary on art and the world, thus becoming art itself.
Artists
• They had become disillusioned by Art, Art History and History in general.
• Many of them were veterans of World War I
• They had grown cynical of humanity after seeing what men were capable of doing to each other on the battlefields of Europe.
Artists
• Members of the movement were:– Hans Arp– Marcel Duchamp– picabia– Marx Ernst– Man Ray– Kurt Schwitters
Ideas
• They became attracted to a nihilistic view of the world
• They thought that nothing mankind had achieved was worthwhile, not even Art.
• They created an Art in which chance and randomness formed the basis of creation
Ideas
• The basis of Dadáa is nonsense.• With the order of the world destroyed
by World War I, Dadáa was a way to express the confusion that was felt by many people as their own world was turned upside down.
Works
• They took normal objects but they put them in such a way that were completely useless.
• These objects received the name of `ready made´.
• In paintings they tend to glue objects to the images, making of everything a kind of machine, something mechanic, no human
Arp
Duchamp
Ernst
Man Ray
Schwitters