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1. DADAISM
Revision

2. Beginnings
• It is a post World War I cultural
movement
• It appeared in:
– Visual arts
– Literature (mainly poetry)
– Theatre
– Graphic design

3. Beginnings
• It was a protest against the
barbarism of the War
• Dadaists believed War was an
oppressive intellectual rigidity in
both:
– Art
– Everyday society

4. Beginnings
• Dadaist works are characterized
by:
– Deliberate irrationality
– Rejection of the prevailing standards
of art
• It influenced on later movements
including Surrealism

5. philosophy
• According to its proponents, Dadaá
was not art
• It was anti-Art
• For everything that art stood for,
Dadáaá was to represent the
opposite

6. Philo philosophy
• Dadaá supposed that
– Where art was concerned with
aesthetics, Dadaá ignored them
– If art is to have at least an implicit or
latent message, Dada strives to have
no meaning
• If art is to appeal to sensibilities,
Dadaá offends

7. Influence
• Interpretation of Dadaá is
dependent entirely on the viewer.
• This movement was highly
influential in Modern Art.
• It became a commentary on art and
the world, thus becoming art
itself.

8. Artists
• They had become disillusioned by
Art, Art History and History in
general.
• Many of them were veterans of
World War I
• They had grown cynical of humanity
after seeing what men were capable
of doing to each other on the
battlefields of Europe.

9. Artists
• Members of the movement were:
– Hans Arp
– Marcel Duchamp
– picabia
– Marx Ernst
– Man Ray
– Kurt Schwitters

10. Ideas
• They became attracted to a
nihilistic view of the world
• They thought that nothing mankind
had achieved was worthwhile, not
even Art.
• They created an Art in which chance
and randomness formed the basis
of creation

11. Ideas
• The basis of Dadáa is nonsense.
• With the order of the world
destroyed by World War I, Dadáa
was a way to express the confusion
that was felt by many people as
their own world was turned upside
down.

12. Works
• They took normal objects but they
put them in such a way that were
completely useless.
• These objects received the name of
`ready made´.
• In paintings they tend to glue
objects to the images, making of
everything a kind of machine,
something mechanic, no human

13. Arp

14. Duchamp

15. Picabia

16. Ernst

17. Man Ray

18. Schwitters