DaDa and Surrealism
Dada Manifesto - New York, Paris, Barcelona etc
After World War 2
Young artists angry about the world, the war
Not made there mark yet
Spontaneous, chaotic
destroying systems involved with capitalism
The impressionists looked dated
Active demonstrations - noise concerts, violent, horrid
Big difference between rich and poor
Made to go and fight, seen death and destruction
reacting against this
no interest in pretty images
destruct anything to do with capitalism
DaDa - Yes Yes
Hobby Horse
Naivety
Hugo Ball
Tristan Tzara
Marcel Janco
Hans Richter
Jean Hans Arp
Sophie Taeuber Arp - DaDa Head, 1920 (destructing the bust)
Cabaret Voltaire - Puppetry, poetry, dancing etc
make the art as ugly as possible
Anti - Art, Aesthetics etc
Hans Arp - Collarge with Squares Arranged Accordingly to the Laws of Chance, 1916-17
Chance, Irony Games, Word Play, Manipulation, Loss of Meanings
Marcel Duchamp - LHOOQ, 1919
Picabia - Portrait of Cezanne, 1920 anti establishment, or normal art
Man Ray - Cadeau, 1921-63 everyday object made viscous and useless
Marcel Duchamp - Fountain, 1917
By product art as an art
Duchamp was a very talented painter which was less known, could paint anything needed a new way forward
fed up of art institutions choosing what art is and what can be displayed
Signature forms the art
Open exhibition - but the fountain was not aloud to be exhibited
R Mutt - Also stands for poverty
Readymades - put forward to symbolize something else
you pay for the name of the artist
artist began to choose what art is
even if he didn’t make it the change and signature made it art
very powerful at the time
questioning everything
marcel protested why it wasn't exhibited which was part of it
Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel, 1913
distributing everyday things in a new way
DaDa movement 1919
George Grosz - Toads of Property, 1920 more figurative
Ecle Homo Series, 1923
Explosive attacks to the establishment and capitalism
Capitalists - lust, sin, pollution, money
juxtaposition between rich and poor
Bourgeoisie
Photo montage, collage
Hanna Hock - Beautiful Girl, 1919-20
manipulated beings
Duchamp - The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, 1915-23
Bachelors on the bottom
mimicking something in your head
DaDa became norm and the artists began to become minor celebrities
the group started to dissolve
most challenging period of art - yet freedom began and art as an idea
DaDa had a rippling effect everywhere and on everything
Literature became fragmented
Ballet Russe - Parade Ballet was classed as high art
Andre Breton started 1924 Surrealism Excluded Reality
Artists in revolt against society
Freud important to surrealism, sexual desire drives everything, objects have gender and identity. symbolizing death repression a form of depression.
Hans Belmer - Plate 9 of Les Jeux de la Poupee (The Games of the Doll), 1949
Naivety, childhood next to a man on the bed horrid connotations
Change the way you think/see reality
Freud’s theory of the unconscious
negativity getting low and boring
positivity become to arrive
Jean Miro
Dali
Picasso
Hans Belmer had a theory that a lot of people were abused as kids - Chapman Bros
"beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella" quote by Isidore Ducasse
the sewing machine was female and the umbrella was male, Rape and prostitution
Max Ernst - Men Shall Know Nothing of this, 1923 (poem on the back)
dedicated to Andre Breton
Rene Magritte - The Reckless Sleeper
Things on you mind
Dali - Pushed out - Metamorphosis of Narcissus
his farther told him he was his brothers reincarnation
he represented women as rotten fruit and decaying things
he was frightened of women but desired them
The Lugubrious Game, 1929
Impeccable painting however strange the subject was
the surrealists didn’t like him becoming a celebrity and disowned him
Magritte
Man Ray - Lee Miller, Neck, 1930 (erect penis shape)
Meret Oppenheim - Fur Covered Cup and Saucer and Spoon, 1936
items of fetish, unaccessible yet they were everyday
Became glamourous and daring
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