Dada is an art movement that I think came with the postmodernist movement in the early and mid 20th century, as well as the first World War. With postmodernism and the war there came a new way of thinking about and perceiving the world, and people wanted to make art that expressed these new ideas. They wanted to flip conventional art on it's head and make people wonder; make people actually feel something, no matter what it was.
Discuss Duchamp’s notion of “Readymades.” What are they?
Duchamp was interested in ideas, not just visual products. Readymades are normal, every day objects, presented as art, even though one wouldn't normally consider them to be art. Ordinary things could be art simply because the artist wanted them to be. In addition, Readymades combat the notion that art has to be beautiful. Much of Duchamp's work was ugly or confusing, but made people use their minds and react more to the art.
How do they change your expectations about what art can be
The article states,"'Readymades' ... disrupted centuries of thinking about the artist’s role as a skilled creator of original handmade objects."Art no longer had to be something that the artist made from scratch. It could just be random things that the artist describes as art. Basically with readymades, anything could be art.
They took this approach as a form of personal protest and a tool to play with and critique the time period which they lived in. Dada artists “could attack the bourgeoisie with distortions of its own communications imagery." They put their feelings about the war, how the world was being run, how people were being killed, and the general injustice of the time, and expressed it in their art.
What is the value of art made by Dadaists?
The value of art made by Dadaists, according to them, lay not in the work produced, but in the act of making and collaborating with others to create new visions of the world. The value of the art is the effort put into it and the people who collaboratively make the effort.
Discuss Duchamp’s notion of “Readymades.” What are they?
Duchamp was interested in ideas, not just visual products. Readymades are normal, every day objects, presented as art, even though one wouldn't normally consider them to be art. Ordinary things could be art simply because the artist wanted them to be. In addition, Readymades combat the notion that art has to be beautiful. Much of Duchamp's work was ugly or confusing, but made people use their minds and react more to the art.
How do they change your expectations about what art can be
The article states,"'Readymades' ... disrupted centuries of thinking about the artist’s role as a skilled creator of original handmade objects."Art no longer had to be something that the artist made from scratch. It could just be random things that the artist describes as art. Basically with readymades, anything could be art.
Dada artists turned to non-art making
strategies…
What
did they embrace?
They started making collages, assemblages, and photomontages, and subverted elements that had long defined artistic practice like craft, control, and intentionality.
Why
did they take this approach?
What is the value of art made by Dadaists?
The value of art made by Dadaists, according to them, lay not in the work produced, but in the act of making and collaborating with others to create new visions of the world. The value of the art is the effort put into it and the people who collaboratively make the effort.
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How and why did Dada artists work with words?
Dadaists wanted to flip societal structures on their heads, and words are how every rule is constructed and every law communicated, so to Dadaists in this time period, "to destroy words and disrupt syntax was perhaps the ultimate act of subversion." They used puns, wordplay, and experimental poetry and literature. They turned words into abstract forms to expose the arbitrary relationship between words and their meanings.
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