Dada, Surrealism, and After
Dada began during World War I as a protest against the war, the current society, and the old world order
Dada contributed to the art world:
-appropriation: stealing, recycling culture
-assemblage, construction: invented by Picasso, making art with objects
-conceptual art: physical manifestations reflecting the thought process, became popular art form in the early 20th century
-chance: acceptance of chance in art work
Dada originated in Zurich, a new kind of mentality was being expressed as a protest movement
July 17 1916 was the release date for Dada Magazine
Artists:
Hugo Ball
-opened the "Cabaret Voltaire" in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland as a refuge for Dada artists who were fleeing from the war
-eventually groups branched off from the cabaret, and Dada spread across Europe such as the Berlin group in 1919 who protested the right wing German government that led to the creation of the 3rd Reich and the Paris group in 1924 whom would later become the Surrealist group
-work consisted of: sound poems, costumes(influenced by Cubism), masks, invented collage in 1916
the goal of Dada: to create a new culture for the new world
Kurt Schwitters
-worked with assemblage and collage
-created a one man group and his own form of art, named it "Merz" which was short for commerz(commerce)
Marcel Duchamp
-established the art form of readymades
-enjoyed artwork that had opposing or negating factors
Robert Rauschenberg was influenced by the Dadaists as seen in his piece "Retroactive 1"
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