Dada

emerged deeply traumatized and highly critical of western culture” (The art story) Those gave him the inspiration for his artwork and he was also known to work humor into his pieces as well. Max mostly took part in the surrealist movement as well as the Dada. In Max’s work he was one of the first artists to use the “Sigmund Freud's” dream theory to inspire his creativity to make his art pieces. “Ernst was profoundly interested in the art of the mentally ill as a means to access primal emotion and unfettered

historical and contemporary art practice. The origins of the practice of assemblage can be traced back to its early twentieth century roots based on ideas presented by Dadaists. The Dada movement was a literary and artistic movement during the First World War and further developed as a non-art movement. The main idea of Dada was to not follow a uniform rule of what an artwork entails in order to be valued. This movement was significant in the development and history of art as it challenged society with

From the beginning of film filmmakers were using the platform to tell people stories, so that people could go be entertained and lose themselves in the experience of seeing the film. Though this form of filmmaking was entertaining for most people, some filmmakers wanted to break this tradition and expand filmmaking into a completely different way. Instead of making the same old narrative films, like classical Hollywood, they want to make more abstract and complex films, they wanted to make films

the title of ‘anti-art’. Dada was presented in many ways, the most well-known being collages made on paper [Fig 1]. Another popular presentation was photography, which was a relatively new concept at the time. These photographs turned ordinary things into art by showcasing the abstractness of ordinary things as seen through a lens. One of the most well-known examples of Dada photography is Fountaine by Marcel Duchamp [Fig. 2]. Technology was also a new concept that Dada-creating artists used to their

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was a French artist, known for his contributions to the Dada movement and for his influence on other artists that followed him. He was born in Blainville-sur-Crevon, a small town in northern France where his father served as a notary. His mother was artistically inclined and thus Duchamp became interested in sketching and painting when he was a teenager. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian. As a young artist, he was influenced

million were wounded. Dada and Surrealism originated as artistic reactions to the colossal destruction experienced during World War I. Dada radical and poet, Tristan Tzara, confessed, “the beginnings of Dada were not the beginnings of art, but of disgust” (MoMa Dada). Largely, this was disgust to the atrocities and suffering of war. However, it was also disgust towards the bourgeoisie, political corruption,

Raoul Hausmann, one of the founders of the Berlin Dada movement. Hausmann credited himself and Höch as the inventors of photomontage. Höch uses her collages to comment and critique the unstable sociopolitical state in Germany at the time. Her collages also highlight the growth of mass media and new technology. Perhaps most importantly, Höch challenges the concept of modern femininity and gender roles through her work. As the only female Berlin Dada artist, Hannah Höch takes a unique and important

Dadaism was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland (“Dada,” sec 1). Dadaism was derived as a result of World War I and the nationalism that many people believe had led to war. This time period was influenced by Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism and Expressionism. It was “widely diverse” period of time, ranging from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting and collage (“Dada,” sec 1). Dadaism was known for its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes

Dada emerged in response to World War I–the movement’s emphasis on nonsense, chance, and the irrational emerging in conflict with the political systems and climate that saw the first modern war to fruition. Dadaists held themselves in firm opposition to the the ideas of logic and the bourgeois that made Europe modern and “progressive” in the eyes of others, and instead denounced the world around them as failing to see the chaos and absurdity society had created. Surrealism, stemming from Dadaism

To understand Surrealism, we must first look at Dadaism, the art movement from which Surrealism stems. Dadaism was an international artistic and literary movement which began in 1916 and lasted until the mid 1920s. Artists involved in the Dada movement were experimental and controversial. They constantly pushed and broke the boundaries of what art is defined as and what art-making could be. They used chance based procedures and unconventional materials such as collages and photo-montages created