Dada and Surrealsim

Ready-mades and Dreams

STYLE  ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

Dada:

• earlier styles show that art can be angry, mundane, agressive, or disturbing
• taste for absurdity, irreverence, humor, irony, iconoclasm
• critique in art of bourgeois values/social conventions
• mock humanist values  (reason, love, morality)
• mock fundamentals of society (patriotism, religion, science, law)
• mock concept of art as unique product by a gifted individual, exalted values, beauty
  • eliminate initial function, take outof normal location and place in art exhibit, change context/view/title/function
• means: performances, manifestations, exhibitions
• types: political social critique (Germany), art involving chance, ready-mades (manufactured objects)
  

Surrealism:

• leader Andre Breton
  • Manifesto interested in dreams
  • psychic automatism = automatic drawing
  • thoughts free of reasoning = total intellectual independence
• transcription of dreams, hallucinations
• juxtaposition of disparate objects
• intellectual liberty

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Dada
Surrealism

Dada
Marcel Duchamp The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even 1913-23;1936
Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel 1913 (Ready-made)
Surrealism
Joan Miro Painting 1933 Spanish
Salvador Dali Persistence of Memory 1931 Spanish
René Magritte Rape 1930 Belgian

VOCAB

Readymade
psychic automatism

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