Dada/Surrealism

Question 1

Answer 1

Armory Show in NY
Not well received

Question 2

Dadaism

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Answer 3

Hugo Ball
Cabaret Voltaire
Zurich, Switzerland

Question 4

Readymades

Answer 4

found object

Question 5

Answer 5

Marcel Duchamp

Readymade

Postcard

LHOOQ - “She’s got a hot ass”

Question 6

Answer 6

Fountain (second version)

Marcel Duchamp

Plumbing was very good in America

creates a new thought for an object.

Art is the idea.

Question 7

Answer 7

Arno Breker

‘Degenerate Art’
Hitler

Question 8

Surrealism

Answer 8

Inspired by dreams and unconsciousness

Salvador Dali

Question 9

Andre Breton

Answer 9

Wrote first surrealist manifesto

Sur-reality

Question 10

Answer 10

Dali:

set design for Hitchcock’s Spellbound

1945

Question 11

Answer 11

Salvador Dali
The Persistence of Memory

Decomposition

Question 12

Carl Jung

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

Meret Oppenheim

Answer 13

Balance and tension between opposites

Aims to keep path between conscious and unconscious open

Question 14

Answer 14

Meret Oppenheim

Object

Animate/living vs. innert

Question 15

Answer 15

Meret Oppenheim

My Nurse

Becomes insulting, provocative

Taking everyday objects and assembling them in a way that brings new meaning

Question 16

Exquisite corpse

Answer 16

Passing a portrait between people in order to tap into the unconscious mind.

Surealism

Question 17

Answer 17

Rene Magritte

The Treachery of Images

Surealism