Dadaism

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  • Dada
    • It has been said that a French German Dictionary was opened at random & the word was dada read out
    • A child's rocking horse?
    • A name a child first utters?
    • It is an attack on earlier movements that have names that are descriptive of their activities
  • Artists associated with Dada
    • Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Scwitters, Max Ernst, Hannah Hoch, Man Ray and Raoul Hausmann
  • Soldiers in the trenches during WW1 – evidence of technological "progress" at its worst
  • Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich is founded by Hans Arp, Tristan Zara, Hugo Ball and Richard Huelsenbeck
  • The Spread of Dada

    1. Dada in Zurich is founded by Hans Arp, Tristan Zara, Hugo Ball and Richard Huelsenbeck
    2. Marcel Duchamp met the Dadists, with Picabia & Man Ray Dada was founded in New York – where Duchamp later influences the "Neo Dadaists" ( Pop artists and Conceptual artists)
    3. Huelsenbeck started a group in Berlin
    4. Max Ernst in Cologne – developed into Surrealism
    5. 1919 Paris is the centre for all Dada groups
  • Hans Arp: '"Total pandemonium," wrote Hans Arp, of the goings-on at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. "Tzara is wiggling his behind like the belly of an Oriental dancer. Janco is playing an invisible violin and bowing and scraping. Madame Hennings, with a Madonna face, is doing the splits. Huelsenbeck is banging away nonstop on the great drum, with Ball accompanying him on the piano, pale as a chalky ghost."'
  • Ball: 'A poem recited by Ball began: "gadji beri bimba glandridi lauli lonni cadori...."'
  • Characteristics of Dada
    • Anti-tradition, anti -art , anti-sense, anti-reason, anti-logic
    • Nihilistic - stressed absurdity - Dada was an attitude rather than a style ( no common style & the exhibitions were known for incoherence)
    • The Dada revolt was ironic - to destroy society meant their own destruction - (Dada existed to destroy itself)
    • Opposed naturalism - challenged traditional values & definitions of art - questioned the role & function of art
    • No specific style or preferred medium
    • 'total art' and provocative events: Art as Protest
    • Expresses disillusionment; illustrated confusion
    • Used satire and black humour and accusation
  • Medium
    • No preferred style or medium
    • Ironically through rejection of tradition they are INVENTIVE and influence future art
    • CHANCE as an element (bereft of sense)
    • Collage & Assemblage from Picasso
    • Readymades invented by Duchamp
    • 'Total Art' music,visual,literature
    • Public events
    • The Creative Act becomes important not just the product
    • Biomorphic shapes (abstract forms resembling forms in nature)
  • Raoul Hausmann
    • Mechanical Head (The Spirit of Our Age) assemblage sculpture
    • ABCD, 1923-1924
  • Man Ray

    • Violin d' Ingres
  • Marcel Duchamp
    • Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912
    • L. H. O. O. Q., 1919
    • Bicycle Wheel on a stool, 1914
    • Bottle Rack, 1917
    • Fountain 1917
    • The Chocolate Grinder
    • The bride stripped bare by her bachelors , even (Large Glass) 1915-23
  • Francis Piccabia

    • Movimento-Dada, 1912
  • John Heartfield
    • Hurray, the butter is gone (finished)!
  • R Hausmann

    • Self-portrait of Dadasophy photomontage
  • Hans Arp
    • Untitled Collage with squares arranged according to the laws of chance, 1916-1917
    • Fleur Marteau, 1916
    • Upside - Down Blue Shoe with Two Heels, 1925
    • Mountain Table Anchors Navel,1925
  • Max Ernst

    • In Here Everything is still floating, 1920
    • The Elephant of the Celebes, 1921
  • Kurt Schwitters

    • Opened by Customs, 1937- 8
    • Merzbau 1923 onwards in his own home
  • Dadaism and Feminism
    • Hannah Höch – Berlin Dadaist – her contribution according to Richter was that she conjured up sandwiches coffee and beer despite limited funds. Hausmann (whom she was involved with) was physically abusive of her and suggested that she get a job to support his art. She was a co-inventor of photomontage with Hausmann but did not get credit for it.
    • Dadaists paid lip-service to women's emancipation but were reluctant to include women. She criticised this hypocrisy in her photomontage Da-Dandy
  • Hannah Höch
    • Da-Dandy, 1919, Photomontage
    • Das Schöne Mädchen (The Beautiful Girl) 1920, Photomontage
    • Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through Last Weimar Beer-Bellly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, Collage