SOG tottally true but i want to go bust out my old books and really see it bc my mind right now has turned into mashed potatoes and i cant recall

the sad thing is, in my Modernism in European Visual Culture, we just learned about Dada probably 2 weeks agoh, but i really can't tell anyone very much about it. we were assigned to read these articles written about it and some by the actual artists, but it was a bit over my head (especialy the Dada writings, poems.....ug). what i think got from it

reaction to WWI
nihilistic
deals with chance, absurdity as means of destroying logic and reason. something about the artist selecting a commonplace object to give it new importance.


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man ray= surrealist.

I suggest you all read up on the movement a bit more,

Duchamp used readymades, but Dada was more about deconstructing art, yes it is anti art. There were many forms of expression they used, plays, sound poems, lots of stuff, I don't know if it is dead or not, I haven't really looked into modern day dadaism. I love a lot of the literature from that period, the Ubu plays, hobdomeros, maldoror....

I don't think dada was pretentious at all, I think it is my favourite "art" movement, I guess a lot of people do not get it, or just don't like it, especially the sound poems, but you have to remember that people performed those poems on a stage in weird contraptions and when you read sound poems in a book it is like reading jibberish, but it can be fun reading them, you loose all sense of structure and they kind of make you feel free in a way..I just guess its not for everyone

I don't think Dada is dead, although I don't know of anything in the last 5 - 10 years that is really keeping it alive. British artists liek Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst are still going along the lines of what I consider Dadaism.

Duchamp and people of that era are vastly different from how Dada is now, but the principle is the same. The humour of Dada is very much still alive.

Jeff Koons can fuck off though.

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when i studied this at school, i remember my teacher said that its interpretation had something to do with duchamp's mother and that the shape of it looked like Mary's veil...
anyway, i love man ray

I love Man Ray too. Les Larmes is like one of my favorite pictures ever.

I always thought it was taking something common ,off kilter and usually not very nice piece of lavatory ceramic and through one's own interpretation it could be viewed in a beautiful artistic light. Its not a dirty urinal, its a sparkling fountain.

I think Dada is still live if you look at some of the art that is being made today.

Even though I myself am more a fan of the classic art movements (especially romanticism, baroque and also the more modern impressionism. But I really mainly like Caravaggio's work along with Bernini (mainly his arhcitecture/sculptures) I think Dada was just a logic reaction in the art world....

But I do feel like art is less beautiful and less spectacular than it used to be. But this all has to do with our current society and our technological, social, political development....etc But I don't feel like writing an essay on that right now.

I gotta go study!

oh.even though I do love "classic" art more one of my favourite works is Duchamp's "L.H.O.O.Q" cos it's hilarious!