Monday, March 9, 2015

MoMA & Dada


World War I and Dada

  • Dada is a type of art movement influenced by World War I. Artist were not trying to impress they wanted to discuss. The ideals of Dada art came about form activities form small groups of artists and poets in Zurich. They wanted an alternate vision on the world.

Marcel Duchamp and the Readymade

  • The readymades defined the notion that art must be beautiful.  Duchamp used everyday objects to show a visual indifference. Duchamp paved the way for conceptional art.
  • This changes my expectations about what art can be because you have to put into consideration that DADA is art because someone had to put it together or just invent
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    Bicycle Wheel
    BY:Marcel Duchamp
Chance Creations: Collage, Photomontage, and Assemblage

  •  Dada artists embraced chance, accident, and improvisation. Such forces figured prominently in their creation of collages assemblages, and photomontage—and subverted elements that had long defined artistic practice, like craft, control, and intentionality.
  • It was a form of personal protest and a tool for critiquing the increasingly mechanized, violent world in which they lived

Artist Collaboration
  • art lay not in the work produced, but in the act of making and collaborating with others to create new visions of the world.
Word Play
  • They used poetry and literature; turning words and letters into abstract form and stripping form

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