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DADAS IMPACT IS FELT THROUGHOUT THE CENTURY
these styles use everyday items / mix high and low culture / make the ordinary extraordinary
DADA SURREALISM POP
BRIT ART
Legacy 2
Our time chart reveals Dadas little big guy reputation
1906 1914 cubofuturism W A R 1918 dada 1939 surrealism W A R 1950 1960 1990 pop art abst expressionism minimalism brit art
DEFINITION
A movement of irreverent,unbridled protest against the state of western society. Members saw art as decadent and middle class: they staged events (happenings) designed to shock and they created works out of unconventional materials or based on chance
Dada attacks art and society - it is aesthetic and political The former experimented with the language of art, its limits and methods, solving artistic problems without the usual means. Even asking what is art ? The latter was concerned with its power to change the world - it could protest, satirize, criticize and dream a political response to its age
Great War 3:
Optimism is replaced by pessimism, utopianism by nihilism
MARCEL DUCHAMP
This French artist and writer developed many of the Dada strategies before the war The anti-Picasso for some, he is an ideas man devoted to provocation and manipulation There is an evolution in his work that we can trace from 1910
1. 2. 3. 4. Cubofuturism Experimentation Criticism/Satire Conceptualism
working in Paris new methods/materials mocking art & society art is about ideas, not products or beauty
Objet Trouve Performance Shock Photomontage Multimedia Rule breaking Chance Absurd Childlike Conceptual - puns/homophones Nihilistic Utopian
Look up Duchamps major piece from this time - discover a further obsession with taboo subjects and new methods
Duchamp is enigmatic: is he challenging or just shocking? He didnt explain: the silence of Duchamp is overrated (Beuys) Chess, money making and interviews replaced art-making for him after this, or so it seemed
Kurt Schwitters
made large environments out of found, readymade junk generated by commerce (merz) and was a performance artist
Hans Arp
made toy-like sculptures developed out of chance techniques,subverting both logic and art education
CROSSOVER 1
Like the Futurism before it, Dada was multimedia, media savvy and involved in areas not associated with art - thus its impact in design and media is wide-ranging and it can seem to predict aspects of Postmodern (lo fi, subversive and (digital) media-friendly
CROSSOVER 2
Thanks to Fluxus (Paris, 1960s) and Malcolm McClaren, Dadas influence on 70s Punk fashion, graphics, typography and music was notable (see Vivienne Westwood, Linder and Jamie Reid): suddenly Dada was everywhere
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