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Summary Dadaism
- Course
- Visual Art
- Institution
- Brescia House High School
IEB Visual Art notes for grade 12, in detail and includes images.
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Dadaism- “child’s rocking horse.”
- Movement at random
- Rebel
- Randomness
- Conceptual movement (thought)
- Shock value
- No originality – not unique.
- Anti-art movement which reacted to the rottenness of a society
capable of inhuman destruction and cruelty (World war 1)
- Believed traditional art was the product of the bourgeois
(people who buy the art) therefore, they turned their back on
art.
- Rejected all that was beautiful, logical & meaningful in terms of
art – as an expression of their disgust + anger
- Dadaists revolt involved a kind of irony. They were dependent
upon the doomed society + destruction of it and its art would
thus mean the destruction of themselves as artists – Dada
existed in order to destroy themselves.
- 2 kinds of distinct emphasis in Dadaism:
Those whole life Arp & Ball – looking for a new art to replace
the outworn + the irrelevant aestheticism
Those who like Tsara – intent on destruction by mockery +
were prepared to exploit the irony of their position by fooling
the public about their social identity as an artist.
- Some of these anti-art works were created from found objects.
- Daily objects were converted so that it made them non-
functional. (always some form of destruction.)
- They were “useless” things buy they were presented as art
objects in a way that mocked art, creating a paradox.
, Man Ray: The Gift (iron with tacks)
An ordinary flat domestic iron had sharp tacks stuck to the
bottom. Made it an improbable object of use and a non-aesthetic
object.
Marcel Duchamp said that for this iron one should “use a
Rembrandt as an ironing board.” – metaphor for dada: reflects its
destructive motives. * destruction is also creation.
Marcel Duchamp:
Bicycle Wheel
Bottle Rack
Fountain
(said its more about the idea behind it.)
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