Dada Art What s the point of life? Who cares? What s the point of art? Who cares?
What is Dada? Ar7s7c and literary movement starts in Germany, spreads interna7onally It arose as a reac7on to WWI and the na7onalism/ra7onalism, which many people thought had brought the war about Rejected conven7ons in art and thought Basic idea is that life doesn t make any sense, so art shouldn t make any sense either Wanted to shock society into self- awareness
World War I Influence World War I unleashed slaughter and devasta7on on a scale unprecedented in history More than 9 million soldiers died in four years The Dadaists believed reason and logic had been responsible for the insane spectacle of collec7ve homicide that was World War I They concluded the only route to salva7on was through the irra7onal and intui7ve
Collage Pioneered a varia7on of the techinque called collage created ar7s7c composi7ons from cut pieces of paper They called it photomontage because their collages consisted of pieces of magazine photographs Collage lent itself well to the Dada desire to exploit chance in the crea7on of art and an7- art.
Hannah Hoch Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dad through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
Mechanical Head (Spirit of Our Age) by Raoul Hausmann The sculpture is made from a hairdresser's dummy, parts of a pocket watch, pieces of a camera, tape measure and other objects.
Marcel Duchamp: The Fountain
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George Grosz: Republican Automatons
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Great Moments in Modern Art (2) Kurt SchwiDers 1925-26- 27-28 In the spirit of Locarno the chris7an/social democra7c/liberal/conserva7ve/ na7onal/patrio7c/fascist government takes a nosedive. The armies, le] right and centre, offer to step in. - Inside the frame inside the frame is order October 1929 World stock market crash. - Rampele, trampele Trampele, rampele Old pear tree! Ghost of years to come, stay away from me.
The Man Who Died Kurt Schwi;ers "My father's life: typhoid fever, apprenbce, clerk in a ladies' wear shop. Special interest: decorabng. In 1886 had his own shop in Hannover. Bad teeth." - K.S. grey rain the day the man said when I die let it rain that day whenever it rains then is grey to whomever 7me says goodbye who set the man singing said the man who died said grey the man is grey said grey the rain is dead goodbye said the rain whenever the man is singing then in a grey raincoat 7me says die wring out the rain ring it out that day save the grave for whomever the man said save the rain for a gay day sing it whenever said the grey die sighs the rain goodbye whenever
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THE BAUHAUS Art into Industry
THE BAUHAUS Founded in 1919 in Germany Bauhaus sought to use industry not in a destruc7ve way but as a posi7ve force to democra7ze (DEFINE) a standard of living. Industrial materials and process, ra7onalized and simplified by an ar7s7c designer, could build a beker society. Each workshop has a "formmeister" and a cra]sman, with the ideal to blend the two skills in one, as a universal designer.
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Furniture Before (le]); Bauhaus (right)
Metalwork Before (le]); Bauhaus (right)