Why Were These Particular Qualities Appealing To Dadaist?

Expressionism appeared in poetry and drama in Germany and Austria just before World War I, and was influenced by Freudian Theories of the subconscious and Nietzsche’s anti-rationalism ideas. Expressionism was mostly popular during times of social change or spiritual crisis. This kind of art was a way for people to express their emotions and feelings during a time in the world when they didn’t know any other way to express themselves.

Impactful across the globe, both Dada and Surrealism were artistic movements created in the early 20th century that were significant in redefining modern art today. The Dada movement came about in 1916 through the performance of Hugo Ball’s sound poem “Karawane” at the Cabaret Voltaire that he opened with his partner, nightclub singer Emmy Hennings, in Zurich, Switzerland. The poem made absolutely no sense, purposely, and it didn’t have to. Ball would also dress in wild costumes for his performances as seen below:

Dada was an artistic and literary movement that grew out of dissatisfaction with traditional social values and conventional artistic practices during World War I. Dada artists were disillusioned by the social values that led to the war and sought to expose accepted and often repressive conventions of order and logic by shocking people into self-awareness. Marcel Duchamp was one of the first to participate in this movement. He is known for his satirical or humorous content and the use of accompanying text. Duchamp began to grow disappointed with “retinal” art though, and soon stopped painting on canvases altogether. He then moved out of the already existing boundaries of art into was is now called conceptual art. His monumental work is known today as The Bride Bare by Her Bachleors, Even, or The Large Glass. Duchamp worked on this piece for eight years, until he abandoned it in what he referred to as a “definitively unfinished” state. This piece of work includes humor, random chance, pessimism, and anti-art; these four elements are often found in Dada art.

As Nazi’s army occupies cities and countries all over the Europe, Paris was inevitably erupted and ruined by the pervasion of Fascism. Many influential European avant-garde artists such as Duchamp and Matisse either immigrated or traveled to the United States of America in order to take a break from the European social disorders. Paris was no longer the symbol represents freedom and liberty, so the artists were actively seeking a new location to express their thoughts and to create contemporary artworks without any constraints. These artists and their works were officially exhibited in the Armory Show. The exhibition introduced American with Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, and Dadaism, which opens the possibilities of the American Modernity.

Identified as one of the great American artists of the 20th century, Robert Rauschenberg was a profound individual with a curious mind for disruption. Known for his radical experiments, ranging materials and mediums, and efforts to explore the boundaries of what constitutes art, Rauschenberg was an artist interested in not just the outcome, but the process. His “Combines” in the early 1950s established his “Neo Dadaist” label as his works incorporated found objects and photographs, breaking down the barrier of sculpture and painting. His interest in avant-garde art and provoking methods caused a lot of stir during his lifetime. However, Rauschenberg diverged and literally erased critics precedent, and continued to pave the way for numerous movements and artist to come; changing the art market forever.

Tremendous technological advance and tremendous slaughter leave an artistic waste land of atrocity, emasculation and pointing posters used to manipulate the public into recruiting men to join the military around the globe. Skilled illustrators in America, less inventive but artistic allegory’s in Canada and France and plain typography in Britain leave many artists busy with supporting the war effort. On the outskirts of war were a contingency of international peoples with little means and a negative view of European culture and war that chose to defect to Switzerland where they created the art movement known as Dada.

With the advent of Modernism in the early twentieth century, many artists and critics began making theoretical pronouncements about their works and ideas. Using three different artists and their writings from the Theories of Modern Art book by Herschel B. Chipp. I will study the artist’s works and ideas in relation to the role of art in their society, the role of traditional practices in art, their view on nature versus reality, and their view on the relationship between art and truth. The three artists and works will be the Fauvist Henri Matisse’s “Notes of a Painter,” the German Expressionist Franz Marc’s “How Does a Horse See the World?” as well as “Aphorism,” and lastly the Dadaist Jean Arp’s, “Abstract Art, Concrete Art.”

Considering that this is the closest visual representation of what “true cabaret” would have looked like, is not a bad place to start. To further the true understanding of cabaret, Jelavich’s book offers a detailed description of the development of cabaret during the 20th century, and how this, what Lavich classifies as a true form of cabaret was only short lived, but left an enduring impact on the developing form of cabaret. To understand the shape that musical theatre has formed over the year’s one must examine the environment and also the time it was written, as we are able to understand how and why they developed certain styles and forms of entertainment. Understanding the history of Berlin gives us the starting point as to how the cabaret style that Lavich mentions, came about in the 20th

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For its first annual “ Forum” exhibition in 1917, Marcel Duchamp was the leading figure for displaying art for the, “American Society of Independent Artists” committee. Most significant, he anonymously submitted a work of art that would be so shocking and offensive

Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter and sculptor was of the most influencal artists of the twentieth century, he is also known for developing the cubist movement. Picasso created more than 20,000 works of art and his work can be catergorized into periods, His later works include surrealism and realism. Picasso was influenced by many famous artists including Paul Cezanne and it was Cezannes work of three dimensional form that inspired him to develop cubism alongside French artist Georges Braque, who had visited Picassos studio to view his painting “Les Demoiselles d Avignon” (1907). At first glance Braque is reported to have said “Listen, in spite of your explanations, your painting looks as if you wanted to make us eat tow or drink gasoline and spit fire” but after a further

What makes an artist work so unique that it captures an emotion or spark to viewers? The avant-garde artist was a unique group of people who wanted to do something different to their work. Around the 1900s, an artist that stand out from the crowd was Alexander Rodchenko. He sought to push people to rebuild society in a Utopian model rather than the one that had lead to the war. This movement focused on carrying the fundamental analysis of the materials and the form of art. His photographs, on the other hand, made a different approach. The founder of the constructivist art movement, Alexander Rodchenko, created work that was engaging, innovative, and asymmetrical. His strange angular shapes and photomontage gave a psychological stir to the public

Modern art has been influenced by “primitive” art from Africa and the Indian Islands but Barbara Hepworth was influenced by the hills and landscape around here. Her work Simple Form, 1937 (fig. 1) is reflective of the landscape and the rock outcropping in the area around where she grew up. This artist did not have to look to a different country for “primitive” art to inspire her work. The primitive artists also seem to have been inspired by these same outcroppings of rocks in much the same way. Like other modern artists Hepworth was breaking down the form to its essential form.Hepworth expressed that it was the landscape of her childhood that impressed upon her and where she looked to for inspiration.

Art can not be made without the unique and impactful minds of its creators. Many artists found inspiration from society’s desperate times to create new forms of art. Artists wanted their art to have an impact not only in their society but on others as well. They wanted their art to be meaningful. “The German Expressionist movement was more than just a style of creating works of art or of telling a story, rather it was more of a mindset that had social, cultural, and political aspects. German Expressionism can be understood as a means of approaching life and, in particular, change” (Gruber). “Many artists’ intentions was to show society’s desire for a new and improved society” (Bebuquin, p32).

Dada was a radical art movement started in 1914 and ended in the mid 1920’s mainly in the North Atlantic. It was created as a form of protest against World War 1 by immigrants who wanted to express a new kind of mentality in the world of art and politics at the time. Dada was the reaction and rejection of traditional society and the atrocities of World War 1 by artist of that era. It reflected their desire to oppose convention and boundaries and establish art in a new light, breaking down stereotypes and forcing people’s perception of art to be broadened.