Dada/Surrealism Flashcards

Armory Show in NY
Not well received
Dadaism
Direction that if rationalism produces war and mass death, then people should pay attention to irrationality.
Dada - term for child toy horse
WWI - chemical and mechanized warfare for the first time.

Hugo Ball
Cabaret Voltaire
Zurich, Switzerland
Readymades
found object

Marcel Duchamp
Readymade
Postcard
LHOOQ - “She’s got a hot ass”

Fountain (second version)
Marcel Duchamp
Plumbing was very good in America
creates a new thought for an object.
Art is the idea.

Arno Breker
‘Degenerate Art’
Hitler
Surrealism
Inspired by dreams and unconsciousness
Salvador Dali
Andre Breton
Wrote first surrealist manifesto
Sur-reality

Dali:
set design for Hitchcock’s Spellbound
1945

Salvador Dali
The Persistence of Memory
Decomposition
Carl Jung
Full well-beingness
Psychological whole-ness
Try to integrate the unconscious forces that underly our behavior
Individuation: find how conscious and unconscious can work together
Takes into account experiences.
Meret Oppenheim
Balance and tension between opposites
Aims to keep path between conscious and unconscious open

Meret Oppenheim
Object
Animate/living vs. innert

Meret Oppenheim
My Nurse
Becomes insulting, provocative
Taking everyday objects and assembling them in a way that brings new meaning
Exquisite corpse
Passing a portrait between people in order to tap into the unconscious mind.
Surealism

Rene Magritte
The Treachery of Images
Surealism