Friday, October 22, 2010

Dadaism Lecture 10/15

Dada
    • Began in WWI
    • Protest against war, society, old social order
    • “Wanted to include arts into the fight for a new ethic”
    • “Dadaists had a bad reputation” at the time
    • Hugo Ball opened the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916, in Zurich, Switzerland
    • Dada artists gathered there while waiting out the war
    • Group moved to Berlin in 1919 after WWI
    • 1924: Group in Paris interested in language as art.
    • Paris Dada turns into surrealism
    • Collages didn't really exist before Dada
    • Assemblage formed shortly after collages
    • Changing environment to art new at the time

Dada Contributions
    • Appropriation
    • Assemblage/Construction
    • Conceptual Art
    • Chance

Some Dada Artists
    • Jean Arp
    • Hugo Ball (Guy w/ Cubist costume)
    • Kurt Schwitters
    • Marcel Duchamp
    • Robert Rauschenburg – collages

Pop Art
    • Taking pop culture and turning it into art
    • Elvis as art, etc

Conceptual Art
    • Very basic art, meaning is more important than what is seen
    • Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility
    • “This is not a pipe”

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