Sad Young Man in a Trainby Marcel Duchamp
Salvador Dalí Swans Reflecting Elephants
Dali employed his critical–paranoiac method to make elephants appear from the reflection in the water of the swans.
This is a cool picture I found as I was looking at Dada art. I also found a good definition and explination of dadaism on this website, http://www.artinthepicture.com/styles/Dadaism/
"What is Dadaism
Dadaism or Dada is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design. The movement was, among other things, a protest against the barbarism of the War and what Dadaists believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society; its works were characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art. It influenced later movements including Surrealism."
Dadaism or Dada is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design. The movement was, among other things, a protest against the barbarism of the War and what Dadaists believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society; its works were characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art. It influenced later movements including Surrealism."
I remember sister Stokes telling us how intersting she thought dadaism was and that's why I decided to look into it a little more. I agree with the professor and found some pretty cool things. From what I understand Dadaism came from a lot of people who didn't like to be told what the standard and accepted things were in art from others and rebelled against that and started creating many different kinds of art to make a statement. I think that art has evolved that way from the beginning and it's interesting to see what that has done in our day to the art that is created today and how much variety there is.
I agree with you about why art has evolved so much. Isn't it nice that some people are willing to take a risk and do something out of the ordinary?
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting how art is used as a statement. The Dadaist movement was very opposed to the war and used dramatic art to show that. People tend to be more emotional at art and pictures rather than writing.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting that a lot of the great things that have been done were against the "norm" at the time. Those people did something extraordinary because what they did wasn't ordinary at the time.
ReplyDeleteDadaism is interesting but it just rubs me the wrong way. i got a pretty long comment from sister stokes on my blog but i understand the statement they were trying to make now and its a little better. its just a gross way to depict war but war isn't pretty.
ReplyDeleteI was reading today in my American Heritage textbook and I had to think about Dadaism. Here, I'll leave a snippet here of the author's account of the carnage of the Civil War in America, "In every city, town, and village in the North and South after the war, there were maimed veterans trying to rebuild their lives with an arm, a leg, or an eye missing." (Fox, Pope p. 189). I mean, I can understand how such a thing could also impact the art world and why it is so "not beautiful" to look at.
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