|
// robert whyte //
One might be tempted to say that Tristan was disgusted by bourgeois values and despairing over World War I, but that would be a little overstated for a mercantile looking little man and let's just say he was capable of deflating any pretention, even his own.
Dada, if you want to define it, could be thought of as a particularly irritating nodule of grit in the cultural oyster shell of the early 20th century.
A few pinz-nez bedecked fellows and a very few furry cup-and-saucered women indulged in deliberate irrationality, anarchy and cynicism to prove they could reject the laws of beauty and social organization.
Tristan Tzara, among others, used dada as a vehicle for anti-aesthetic creations and protest activities. Of course the aesthetics that were then anti are now venerated. How dada.
In the USA the movement (so called) featured artists such as Man Ray and Francis Picabia. Francis once said one "should change one's ideas as often as one changes one shirt" which was OK for him since he had a lot of shirts, being incredibly wealthy, and a lot of ideas, being incredibly intelligent. Also he could paint. One of his pals, Marcel Duchamp, is now thought to be one of the most important figures to arise out of Dada, changing "art" forever by switching the role of the artist away from the technical execution of 2d and 3d representations towards the role of cultural inventor, iconoclast and aesthetic enigma.
If history is a liver, then dada is its fluke.
--- ||||||||||||||||||||| it's UP to you ||||||||||||||||||||| ---
>> Dada History
// permutation // robert whyte
Dadaists indulged in deliberate irrationality, anarchy and cynicism to prove they could reject the laws of beauty and social organization.
Tristan Tzara, among others, used dada as a vehicle for anti-aesthetic creations and protest activities. The dada aesthetics that were then anti are now venerated in art history. How very dada.
Why Dada? Some would say that Tristan Tzara protesting his disgust of bourgeois values and his despair over World War I, but that would be a little overstated for a mercantile looking little man and let's just say he was interested in deflating any pretention, even his own. Maybe he was just bored.
Francis Picabia once said one "should change one's ideas as often as one changes one shirt" which was OK for him since he had a lot of shirts, being incredibly wealthy and a lot of ideas, being incredibly intelligent.
Marcel Duchamp now thought to be one of the most important figures to arise out of Dada, changed "art" forever by switching the role of the artist away from the technical execution of 2d and 3d representations towards the role of cultural inventor, iconoclast and aesthetic enigma.
--- ||||||||||||||||||||| it's UP to you ||||||||||||||||||||| ---
| - - - - download: .rtf ( 40.28 kb) - - - - - |
|