Dada & Surrealism

Question 1

Dada, Marcel Duchamp, LHOOQ, 1919

Answer 1

• Adds mustache and goatee, signs it, LHOOQ  she has a hot a
• Contrasting high art to low art, pessimism, likes to offend people

Question 2

Dada, Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

Answer 2

• Takes a urinal and turns it on its side, signs and dates it
• Work was rejected from the exhibition
• “created a new thought for the object”
• The only gifts America has given is plumbing and bridges
• Disappeared after it was rejected
• What is art, who gets to determine what it is, why is it significant?

Question 3

Hannah Höch, Dada Dance, 1922

Answer 3

• Berlin artists liked collages and photo montages
• Worked for a women’s magazine  rise of women
• Elegant costume,, large hat, feather, ridiculously elegant pose
• Tall figurew with small head, making fun of women’s fashions, changing fashions
• Purposeful obscurity

Question 4

Surrealism, Max Ernst, The Horde, 1927

Answer 4

• Popular in art & l it, founded by French writer andre batton, based on freud’s literature  translated into French in 1924
• Explore myth, fantasies, and dreams, probe subconscious
• Automatism  technique to spring new ideas, look at word/image and see what comes to mind’
• Alternate reality, juxtaposition of time and place,
• Frottage put paper over object and rub over it
• Grattagelayers of paint on a canvas laid over textured surface, and then scrapes layers off
• Would try to discover things in frottage, later adapted to grattage

Question 5

Salvador Dali, Birth of Liquid Desires, 1931-32

Answer 5

Question 6

Meret Oppenheim, Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure–Luncheon in Fur), 1936

Answer 6

• Sitting witth picassso at café, telling him about works she had been creating, metal tubing with fur inside, Picasso said fur could cover anything, she said even this cup andn plate, so she did

Question 7

Surrealism, Joan Miró, Shooting Star, 1938

Answer 7

• Explore children’s drawing, liberated from conventions
• Child like qualities, not guided by outward appearance
• Microscopic worlds
• Biomorphism  biological organic reality, totally from imagination
• Very playful

Question 8

Surrealism, Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939

Answer 8

• Said she wasn’t surrealist, but she was connected with them
• Said her life was a nightmare, didn’t need to paint from dreams
• Trolley crash left her recovering and in pain
• Had to lay on her back  first experience painting, showed diego ferera
• They met, fell in love, married in 1929, relationship was always stormu, divorced in 1939, then remarried next year
• Painted this when divorce papers were being signed
• R represents European self, exposed heart, shares arteries with other frieda
• L Mexican costume, heart exposed, locket in hand, in it is an image of 6 yo diego that she fell in love with
• Talking about pain of diego, 2 heritages
• Represents reality

Question 9

dada

Answer 9

arose after ww1, artists responded in a nailistic way, art is meaningless, produced “anti-art” , nothing makes sense, filled with paradox, irony, etc

Question 10

ready made

Answer 10

 find mass produced object and repurpose it in some way

Question 11

surrealism

Answer 11

• Popular in art & l it, founded by French writer andre batton, based on freud’s literature  translated into French in 1924
• Explore myth, fantasies, and dreams, probe subconscious

Question 12

automatism

Answer 12

technique to spring new ideas, look at word/image and see what comes to mind’

Question 13

frottage

Answer 13

 put paper over object and rub over it

Question 14

grattage

Answer 14

layers of paint on a canvas laid over textured surface, and then scrapes layers off