DADA

Question 1

Background

Answer 1

• They were refugees, anarchists, middleclass, and exiles
• Used illogicality and bufoonery to shock
• Questioned morals of the world
• Regarded as an intellectual rebellion
• Word means rocking horse and sounds like baby
• Direct connection to the war
• Leader was Hugo Ball

Question 2

Influence of Dada

Answer 2

• Started other movements like Surrealism
• Continuation of Cubism and Expressionism
• Introduced ready-made

Question 3

Characteristics of dada

Answer 3

• Revolt against logic and reason
• Wanted to destroy all traditions in art
• Protest against the moral views of the middle class
• Mocked everything in order to free themselves from authority, theories, and standards
• Started exploring the subconcious mind

Question 4

Concept of chance

Answer 4

• Colour, shape and composition were arranged/decided based off of chance rather than intention or choice
• Hans Arp cut up rectangles and drop the from a height to arrange them by chance - Rectangles arranged according to the laws of chance

Question 5

Recycling/use of trash

Answer 5

• Kurt Schwitters proved that art can be created from junk
• Called all his works Merz, from KomMERZbank
• Whole point was that everything can create art
• Kurt Schwitters still used some formal art elements like colour and shape

Question 6

Photomontage

Answer 6

• Photographs or phorographic reproductions are taken from the press and used to create a collage
• Indivuidual photos are combined together to create a new subject
• Hannah Hoch- Cut with the kitchen knife in the beer-belly of the Weimar Republic

Question 7

Ready made

Answer 7

• Mass produced objects chosen at random, signed and placed as pieces of art
• Meant to mock art galleries
• States that anything can be art meaning nothing is art
• The Bottle rack, The Fountain

Question 8

Found objects vs ready-made

Answer 8

• Found objects- Man-made or natural objects displayed as art or just as is unaltered
• Ready-made- Mass-produced objects chosen randomly and elevated to art

Question 9

Marcel duchamp

Answer 9

• Witty, tongue-in-cheek, and sexual innuendos
• Opposed “retinal pleasure” or visual viewing for intellectual and concept driven approach to art
• Was committed to the study of optics and perspective
• Experimented with motion and machines