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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