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

Picabia

Ernst

Man Ray

Schwitters