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Dada was founded in Zurich, when ‘an anti-movement for anti-art’ became the status quo, instead of working in oils it had quite a broad scope from periodicals developed by Tzara, To Schadographs and Rayographs which were specifically intriguing to me. These Schadographs was photography without the use of a camera, laying objects on light-sensitive photograph paper, in essence. Of course, oil paint was important for its traditional values and aimed at overthrowing the class system. Some artists avoided oil paint, but Otto Dix was known for oils.
The Dada movement thrived on it’s disgust with cultural nationalism. Francis Picabia ‘confronted us with a radical belief in unbelief, a total contempt for art’. The writer and painter Julius Evola abandoned Dada for philosophical speculation, and Oppenheimer as well escaped Vienna as an early advisor on cabaret. In Central Europe the focus became the concern between nature and emotion, they were skeptical of scientific and tech. progress
Sigmund Freud in his Interpretation of Dreams paved a way for the artists of Dada and Surrealism. In the works of Max Ernst, for example, exploring automatism opened the way to the unconscious. Victor Brauner’s The Strange Case of Monsieur K “evolved Franz Kafka’s hero Josef K and seems to comment on the transformation undertaken by politicians.” While Rene Magritte’s painting The Rape expounded on ‘elective affinities’, aka juxtapositions which were related, as with a woman’s body imposed on her face. Roberto Matta’s crayon drawing Untitled “set the pace for Surrealism in its transatlantic incarnation.”
I learned so much!
“Poetry should be made by all.” - Isidore Ducasse
The Dada movement thrived on it’s disgust with cultural nationalism. Francis Picabia ‘confronted us with a radical belief in unbelief, a total contempt for art’. The writer and painter Julius Evola abandoned Dada for philosophical speculation, and Oppenheimer as well escaped Vienna as an early advisor on cabaret. In Central Europe the focus became the concern between nature and emotion, they were skeptical of scientific and tech. progress
Sigmund Freud in his Interpretation of Dreams paved a way for the artists of Dada and Surrealism. In the works of Max Ernst, for example, exploring automatism opened the way to the unconscious. Victor Brauner’s The Strange Case of Monsieur K “evolved Franz Kafka’s hero Josef K and seems to comment on the transformation undertaken by politicians.” While Rene Magritte’s painting The Rape expounded on ‘elective affinities’, aka juxtapositions which were related, as with a woman’s body imposed on her face. Roberto Matta’s crayon drawing Untitled “set the pace for Surrealism in its transatlantic incarnation.”
I learned so much!
“Poetry should be made by all.” - Isidore Ducasse
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