Dada Presentation

MEDIUM

PREDOMINANT

All things from geometric tapestries to glass to plaster and wooden reliefs were fair game.

NO

Technology Available in that era which influenced the way artists and designers produced their work

Artists and Designers Produced their Work

which influenced the way

Dada viewed technology as a key metaphor for modern society; thusly, Dadaist utilized this notion with subversive playfulness.

Techonology in that Era

Origin of the Word

DADA

There are different speculations

• A multicultural nonsense word, essentially mimicking the first sounds a baby would make

• It originates from the Romanian artist Tristan Tzara and Marcel Jancos Frequent use of the words “DADA” meaning “Yes!” in Romanian

• During a meeting when a paper knife stuck into a French-German dictionary happened to the word “DADA,” a French word for “HOBBYHORSE”

• Fascinated by machines as metaphors for the modern world and human behavior

• Known for his Mechanomorph paintings, which portrayed machine parts in mock portraits.

Dada self-destructed when it was in danger of becoming

"Acceptable"

• Once known as "Papa Dada"

• Background: Dadaism > Surrealist > Cubism

1

• His playful amoeba-like forms had a huge impact on artHe practiced “automatic” (Free-conscious) writing

Francis Picabia

• Founded the movement Abstraction-Creation and invented biomorphic sculpture

2

• Background: Dada > Surrealism

3

Jean Arp

• Greatest contribution is that he single handedly shifted the focus of art away from the strictly visual and onto the mental

• Best for introducing the “Ready-made” (or Found Object) into art

• Loved jokes, puns, and challenging others beyond conventional wisdom

• A man of great humor and wit

• Cofounded Dada

• Background: Cubism > Dadaism > Surrealism

George Grosz

Marcel Duchamp

Beatrice Wood

Marcel Duchamp

Raoul Hausmann

Emmy Hennings

Hans Arp

KEY ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

John Heartfield

Kurt Shwitter

Hannah Hoch

DADA WAS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE SURREALIST MOVEMENT

Tristen Tzara

Francis Picabia

Hugo Ball

ABSTRACT ART

SOUND POETRY

PERFORMACE ART

POSTMODERNISM

POP ART

NOUVEAU REALISM

FLUXUS

BECAME THE GROUND WORK FOR

• Dada art may often reflect the nation of origins’ involvement in the war.

DADA

• German Dada art emphasized machine and military dominance while American Dada art was more humorous and playful.

with nuances in

anti-bourgeois

anti-war politics

The content and concepts focused on

Dada represented the opposite of the traditional conventions of art, where art was concerned with aesthetics and Dada was not

ART = APPEALED TO THE SENSIBILITIES

DADA = INTENDED TO OFFEND

AVANT GARDE

REJECTION OF LOGIC

PRIZING NON-SENSE

IRRATIONALITY

CELEBRATING THE

Involved Media

• Visual Arts
• Literature
• Poetry
• Art Manifestos
• Art Theory
• Theater
• Graphic Design

• Protesting bourgeois nationalist (denotes the wealthy) and colonialist interest (essentially, it’s the policy and practice of a power in extending control over weaker peoples and areas)

• Dadaist believed these were the root causes of the war

• Dada contributors sided with the radical left

• Abstraction
• Expressionism
• Cubism and
• To a lesser extent, Futurism.

Influence Based on Artistic Style

Paris

Tokyo

Yugosalvia

Berlin

Netherlands

Italy

Ireland

New York

ZURICH

Cologne

Dada was born out of a pool of avant-garde painters, poets and filmmakers who flocked to neutral Switzerland before and during WWI.

Created by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich.

Art and Design

of the Movement

and

Designers

and its Influence on the

Social Political Climate

Key Artists

• Richter, Hans, and David Britt. Dada, art and anti-art. New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Print

• Dickerman, Leah, and Brigid Doherty.Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris. Washington [D.C.: National Gallery of Art in association with D.A.P./ Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 2005. Print.

• Blythe, Sarah Ganz, and Edward D. Powers. Looking at Dada. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 2006. Print.

• No Author Stated. "Your Guide to Modern Art" TheArtStory.org. 21 Jan. 2007.
• <http://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada.htm>

• Dan (Contributing writing). "Dada the Art Movement (Or Anti-Art Movement, if you prefer)" Emptyeasel.com. 4 Oct. 2005.
• <http://emptyeasel.com/2007/10/04/the-dada-art-movement-or-anti-art-movement-if-you-prefer/>.

• Hoffman, Irene. "Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection." artic.edu. 6 Apr. 2004. <http://www.artic.edu/reynolds/essays/hofmann4.php

Dada had only one rule:

Never follow any known rules.

Bibliography