DADA : 1916 - 1924

“What is Dada? “an art” “a fire insurance”…. Or is it nothing at all, in other words everything?”

Museum of Modern Art : Introduction to DADA

http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/29/696

BIG IDEAS – SOCIAL & POLITICAL CONTEXT

The movement of Dadaism was in its prime from the period of 1916 to 1920.

Dadaism was about anti art in the sense of rebelling against the former traditional ideals of art.

The Dada artists, musicians, poets and performers … had become cynical of humanity after witnessing (WW1) … and had become disillusioned by art.

BIG IDEAS – SOCIAL & POLITICAL CONTEXT

The ideal of Dadaism was to fight art with art.

A great example is Marcel Duchamp's 'L.H.O.O.Q' which mocks the Mona Lisa by installing a mustache on her face.

The idea of Dada was to offend and shock the art world.

MARCEL DUCHAMP

Duchamp's most scandalous

readymade was the porcelain urinal that

he turned on its back, titled Fountain, signed R. Mutt (a pun on the German

word Armut, or poverty).

Fountain “Readymade”

HANNAH HOCH

A portrait of the artist: Beautiful Girl: 1920

KURT SCHWITTERS & RAOUL HAUSMANN

Kurt Schwitters Raoul Hausmann

SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP

Photo of SophieTaeuber-Arp, 1918.

CHECK OUT what the Museum of Modern Art has to say @: http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/29/738

MAN RAY

"To create is divine, to reproduce is human."

RESOURCES & HOMEWORK:

Museum of Modern Art - New York DADA Exhibit : http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/29/738

Cut and Paste: A History of Photomontage http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/cutandpaste/intro.htm

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National Gallery of ART: DADA http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/artwork/photomontage

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Internet Check out these websites!!!

THINKING AHEAD …

Start collecting random items..

Collect Stuff

DADA ARTISTS: CHOOSE ONE TO RESEARCH

Tristan Tzara Raoul Hausmann Man Ray John Heartfield Marcel Janco Kurt Schwitters Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Hans Arp Marcel Duchamp Francis Picabia Hugo Ball Max Ernst Hannah Hoch

1. Google image search. 2. Put examples in sketchbook.

ANGELA ANNACONDA: KETCHUP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avqvCmq9qUM

What aspects of Dada so you see?

There are many short clips from Angela Annaconda on You

Tube – if you want to see more!!

SUMMARIZE & REVIEW

As a class we will discuss what the students remember from this presentation, or what they already knew.

Collection of objects Variety of text

sources – words & images

Digital camera One picture frame? Sample of

assemblage?

Terms, Artists, Main ideas? Activity

RESOURCES

HTTP://WWW.MOMA.ORG/INTERACTIVES/EXHIBITIONS/2006/DADA/INDEX_F.HTML

Lesson Plan Reference: Books: