G10 Dadaism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism Flashcards
art movement created as a protest
to the bourgeois culture that began
in Zurich, Switzerland
Dadaism
they manipulate ready-made objects
and transform them into artworks.
Dadaism
artists were focus on making works that often upended bourgeois sensibilities and that generated difficult questions about society, the role of the artist, and the purpose of art.
Dadaism
Dadaist artworks were
irreverent ,
random and accidental,
origin of the word _ is still
uncertain
Dada
Dadaist artworks were irreverent ,
random and accidental, the _
on the works show the wit and humor of the artists
ironies
Dadaist artworks were irreverent ,
random and accidental, the _
on the works show the wit and humor of the artists
ironies
first artists of the movement aimed
to stop the war and express
discontent
Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball
Where? When? Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball
in 1916 at their Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich
Dadaism in Germany started in _
1917
Dadaism in Germany started in 1917,
artworks are _ and
_
political and satirical
Other dadaists:
Richard Huelsenbeck Max Ernst Johannes Theodor Baargeld George Grosz Raoul Hausmann Johannes Baader Hannah Höch Hans Arp
Other dadaists:
Louis Aragon Andre Breton Paul Eluard Tristan Tzara Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp works:
LHOOQ, Fountain
Hannah Höch works:
Cut wit a Kitchen Knife Dada
through the Last Weimar Beer
Belly
founded by French Andre Breton in
1924.
Surrealism
it aimed to liberate the human
thoughts, language, and experience
from rationalism.
Surrealism
"psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought."
Surrealism
sought to channel unconscious means
to unlock the power of imagination.
Surrealism
Surrealists believed the rational
mind repressed the power of the
_, weighing it down with
taboos
imagination
artist relied on their own
recurring motifs arisen through
their _ or/and _ _
dreams or/and unconscious mind
Andre Breton
Salvador Dali
Meret Oppenheim René Magritte
Yves Tanguy
Frida Kahlo Joan Miró
(Max Ernst)
Surrealists
avant-garde:
techniques and ideas
game in which each participant takes
turns writing or drawing on a sheet of
paper
cadavre exquis or exquisite corpse
Max Ernst work:
The Elephant Celebes
developed in New York, 1940’s –
1950’s
Abstract Expressionism
the artist is not trying to
recreate the look of things out here
in the ‘real world’
Abstract Expressionism
-large brushes spontaneously to make gestural marks - characterized by a loose, rapid, dynamic, or forceful handling of paint in sweeping or slashing brushstrokes
Action Painters
Action Painters/Abstract Expressionists
Jackson Pollock
Franz Kline
Willem de Kooning
examples of Action Paintings
Number 4, 1951
Flanders
Untitled (Head)
used a single flat color to large
areas which were believed to produce
a meditational response
Color Field
Action Painters/Abstract Expressionists/Color Fielders
Clyfford Still
Barnett Newman
Mark Rothko
Action Paintng/Color Field Piece
No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue)
Untitled (Euclidian Abyss I)
1947-Y-No. 2
