Dadaism with Junk

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  1. Hi. My name is Miss Auto, and today we're going
  2. to be learning about one of the most controversial, confusing
  3. and unique movements in our history.
  4. Today. We're gonna be learning about dot I's, um Now,
  5. during the lesson, we're going to cover three things.
  6. First of all, we're gonna learn what data isn't is
  7. and why it was created.
  8. Number two, we're gonna put the spotlight on three different
  9. artist Marcel Duchamp's Hannah Hotch and Kurt Schwitzer.
  10. The number three.
  11. I am going to show you some ways in which
  12. you can create your own daughter art at home using
  13. things that you may have been throwing away otherwise.
  14. So let's start with that name.
  15. What exactly is the autism?
  16. What is Dada mean?
  17. Well, while I can sound like certain words in other
  18. languages, in summary, it means nothing.
  19. It's a nonsense word made up word.
  20. So why would the artist choose and nonsense word as
  21. the title for their art movement?
  22. Well, it first look, daughter art doesn't really make much
  23. sense either.
  24. Just like the name art historians tend to agree that
  25. the data is a movement started in 1916 which was
  26. smack dab in the middle of world war.
  27. Now, to many people, the time the what they witnessed
  28. were humans not treating.
  29. Now to many people, the time, including the daughter artists
  30. people weren't being treated like humans.
  31. They're being treated more like machines.
  32. They literally saw the world fall into chaos.
  33. City's crumbling around them, people being drafted into war or
  34. having to go into hiding or flee their countries.
  35. They were told by their governments it was all necessary
  36. that it was for the good of their countries.
  37. They were told by the government that it was all
  38. necessary, that it was for the greater good.
  39. But to the artist, it was just a price that
  40. was too high to pay.
  41. They saw they thought that it was pointless.
  42. That it was nonsense may be necessary.
  43. Nonsense but nonsense nonetheless, but nonsense member lists.
  44. So as artists, they thought, Well, how about we make
  45. Cem unnecessary nonsense to show what we really think of
  46. what the world is like right now?
  47. Many artists, many artists in fear for their lives, fled
  48. to Switzerland.
  49. It was a bit safer than the countries that were
  50. bordering it, and a large group of them met up
  51. in Cirque in this town, the cabaret Voltaire was established
  52. by a poet named Hugo Ball.
  53. Yep, that's him.
  54. Hugo Ball was a poet in the Dada movement.
  55. And what he would do the cabaret Voltaire is he
  56. would be putting on performances with fellow musicians that shared
  57. his perspective of the world.
  58. Let's take a listen to some of their music.
  59. Uh, well, that was different.
  60. Unique. Good.
  61. I don't know.
  62. What do you think?
  63. Did you find yourself asking questions like, Does this really
  64. count? Is music?
  65. What's the point of this sound?
  66. Well, if you are asking those questions, then the musicians
  67. were doing exactly what they wanted.
  68. Teoh. They were getting you to think.
  69. Yes, it may have been confusing, but it got you
  70. questioning what music was supposed to be.
  71. Now let's take a listen to some of Hugo's poetry
  72. and see if it makes any more sense.
  73. I don't know about you, but that didn't seem to
  74. make any more sense to me than the music.
  75. Did it sound like another language?
  76. Technically, I guess it waas, but it definitely wasn't German.
  77. I don't know about you, but that poetry didn't make
  78. much more sense to me than the music.
  79. Did it sound like another language?
  80. It wasn't Actually, it wasn't English wasn't even German.
  81. It was actually a made up language, one that Hugo
  82. just wrote down as a series of sounds that weren't
  83. actually words.
  84. He just used his inflection in his wais and his
  85. costume and sets to tell a story.
  86. Performances like these are what inspired the visual artist.
  87. They wanted to take their turn at communicating the goal
  88. of the dot us and getting people to think and
  89. question what art is.
  90. That brings us to our first spotlight.
  91. Artists Marcel Duchamp now do shop tended to work alone,
  92. and that's what he preferred.
  93. He didn't actually consider himself a dot eyes at first,
  94. but he was responsible for inspiring many of the artists,
  95. both inside in outside of the movement.
  96. Now here's a work of art that might look familiar
  97. to you.
  98. Are you saying that's the Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa
  99. by Leonardo da Vinci?
  100. Well, if you thought that you are correct and you
  101. are very smart, but let's take a closer look at
  102. it. Do you notice something different about it?
  103. This isn't the original painting of the Mona Lisa.
  104. Instead, it's a copy, a cheap copy that Marcel Duchamp's
  105. actually drew a rather stylish mustache and goatee on.
  106. Do you think it's funny?
  107. So did he, Duchamp and always take his work so
  108. seriously. He appreciated a good joke, and some of this
  109. artwork was rather different.
  110. Brings us to him.
  111. Which brings us to his ready mades.
  112. Do you think it's funny?
  113. So did he.
  114. Duchamp and always take his work so seriously.
  115. He appreciated a good joke, just like the rest of
  116. us and many of his pieces.
  117. Do you think it's funny?
  118. So did he Do you?
  119. Shop? Didn't always take himself so seriously.
  120. He appreciated a good joke, just like the rest of
  121. us and some of his artwork, though, uh, do you
  122. think it's funny?
  123. So did he.
  124. Did Sharpton always take himself so seriously?
  125. He appreciated a good joke, just like many of us.
  126. But one thing that many people did not find funny
  127. was hiss.
  128. Siri's called Ready Mades ready mades were found objects, art.
  129. Take a look at this one.
  130. For example.
  131. What do you see?
  132. There's two pieces to this sculpture.
  133. If you can call it that.
  134. There's a stool and there's a wheel attached to it
  135. upside down.
  136. Many people wouldn't say that's art, but Do Shop would
  137. argue that the very selection process.
  138. Many people wouldn't say that's art, but the shop would
  139. argue that it's the selection process that makes these objects
  140. are. But Do Shop would argue that it's the selection.
  141. Many wouldn't consider this art, but Duchamp would argue that
  142. it's the selection process that brings value to these objects.
  143. The very fact that the artists chose thes pieces and
  144. display them in a particular way is what separates this
  145. wheel and stool from a pair that you might find
  146. in a trash bin.
  147. He's raising it up.
  148. He's promoting it to the level of art.
  149. He's raising these objects up from their prior purpose, promoting
  150. it to the level of art by putting it on