DADA The Anti - Art
Some believe the word “dada� was chosen at random by stabbing a French-German dictionary with a knife, and picking the name that the point landed upon. Dada in French is a child's word for rocking horse. Other people believe it was just a nonsense word.
Jean Arp, Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1916-17.
Dada began in 1917 as a reaction to the horrors of WWI, and traditional art. These artists had lost faith in their world. Their art was in protest to a world filled with war.
Hannah Hoch, The Pretty Maiden, 1920. DADA
Dada had only one rule: Never follow any known rules.
Dada art was intended to shock people or outrage them.
Marcel Duchamp In 1913 Duchamp exhibited his first “ready-made” sculptures - mass produced common products “selected” by the artist He questioned “What is art?” Can art be something made by a machine if we call it art? If an artist signs their name on it?
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1913.
Marcel Duchamp
Bicycle Wheel, 1913. DADA
Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912.
In 1919, Duchamp drew a moustache and goatee, graffiti-style, on a postcard of the Mona Lisa. It quickly became an icon of the international Dada movement.
Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919.
Hannah Hรถch German Dada artist and one of the inventors of photomontage.
Dada showed artists using more collage, photomontage, and ready made objects.
Dada died when it started becoming "acceptable".
To make a Dadaist poem Take a newspaper. Take a pair of scissors. Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem. Cut out the article. Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag. Shake it gently. Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag. -Tristan Tzara
Your Project: A Dada newspaper headline poem First you will cover a piece of paper with pastel for your background. Next, you will be given a section of newspaper. Cut out all of the headlines and separate them into individual words. Rearrange words on your paper to create a poem. You can try to have your poem make sense, or just do it randomly.