Blog Entry No 16
Tutor: Ms. Scicluna
Date Uploaded: 11/2/2016
The Dada art movement had an artistic and literary form of art towards the movement that had begun in Zurich, Switzerland. In the reaction to World War 1 and the nationalism that had many thought it had led to the war. The inspirational causes of the form of movement at been established by other avant-garde movements such as Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism and Expressionism. It had an output of a wide diversity that spanned from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting, and collage. Dada’s main concept was to mark its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, which proved to be a powerful inspiration on artists in many countries and various cities are the world, including Berlin, Hanover, Paris, New York and Cologne, in which all had generated their own kind of groups. The movement had been consumed then with the founding of Surrealism.
Such Dada artworks shows overlaps and paradoxes that looks intriguing as they seek muckiness in artworks that has a populist sense which remains cryptic enough to show the viewer to deform the works in a variety of ways. Some artists in the Dada movement had portrayed people and scenes that were represented in an order to analyse form and movement. Others like Schwitters and Man Ray, had practiced the art of abstract to express the spiritual and theoretical aspect to their subject matter. Both similar modes had desired to rebuild a daily experience in challenging and rebellious ways. The important key to understand the way Dada art is understood; it is laid in anti – conservative message.
Concepts and styles of Dada
The different conbination of styles that were considered to an asset in this art movement are:
- Surrealism
- Cubism
- Futurism
- Constructivism
Techniques
- Irrevernce
- Readymades - an existed object - combining other objects or readymade - Ernst, Man Ray, Hausmann.
- Assemblage - Duchamp
- Chance - Abstract of composition - Kurt Schwitters
References
The Art Story - Modern Art Insight. http://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada.htm (Accessed 11th Febuaray 2016)
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