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(c. 1916 - c. 1923)

(c. 1916 - c. 1923). 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. Context:

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(c. 1916 - c. 1923)

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  1. (c. 1916 - c. 1923)

  2. 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.

  3. Context: • WW1 - Mass produced, industrialized death (war in the trenches) • Artists came to hate authority & tradition & many fled to Switzerland (Zurich) to escape the war • Hugo Ball & girlfriend opened (Cabaret Voltaire) - provided a venue for artists to exchange ideas • Dada occurred in Zurich, Berlin (associated with German Expressionism), Hanover (Schwitters), New York. • Some Artists associated with Dada =Arp, Duchamp, Scwitters, Ernst.

  4. e.g. of War Poetry: Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As though they were stretched outside The oval or villa park The crowns of hats, the sun On moustache archaic faces grinning as if it were all An August Bank Holiday lark…. Never such innocence, never before or since, AS changed itself to past Without a word : the men Leaving the gardens tidy, the thousands of marriages lasting a little while longer; Never such innocence again.

  5. War Propaganda

  6. Soldiers in the trenches during WW1

  7. A doctor checking feet for trench foot

  8. Soldiers wearing gas masks during WW1

  9. A graveyard in France after WW1

  10. Influences: • Collage from Cubism • Bruitism (noise music), aggression & response to war like Futurism • Spontaneous techniques from Kandinsky • wanted to imitate the innocence & honest approach to art that primitive people had

  11. Futurism: Riot in The Gallery - Boccioni

  12. Futurism:

  13. Janco Mask

  14. Characteristics • anti-tradition, anti -art , anti sense, 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

  15. Marcel Duchamp, c. 1935

  16. Duchamp with star & stripe

  17. Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase 1912

  18. Duchamp : L. H. O. O. Q., 1919

  19. Duchamp The bride stripped bare by her bachelors , even (Large Glass) 1915-23

  20. Duchamp The bride stripped bare by her bachelors , even (Large Glass) 1915-23

  21. Duchamp: The Chocolate Grinder

  22. Detail of Large glass with dust settled on the surface

  23. Duchamp Fountain 1917

  24. Duchamp Fountain 1917

  25. Duchamp: Bottle Rack, 1917

  26. Duchamp: Bicycle Wheel on a stool, 1914

  27. Jean Arp working on a collage in his studio at Meudon, 1960

  28. ARP: Collage with squares arranged according to the laws of chance, 1916-1917

  29. Arp: Fleur Marteau, 1916

  30. Jean Arp Upside - Down Blue Shoe with Two Heels, 1925

  31. Arp: Mountain Table Anchors Navel, 1925

  32. Max Ernst

  33. Ernst: In Here Everything is still floating, 1920

  34. Ernst: The Elephant of the Celebes, 1921

  35. Kurt Schwitters c. 1940

  36. Schwitters Merz Collage

  37. Schwitters Opened by Customs, 1937- 8

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