Mr. Castellani was working in Milan, where he was close to Piero Manzoni, an artist with a more
Dadaist approach.
Mr. Oehlen's contemporaries tended to take a more adversarial,
Dadaist approach, which he did not fully absorb.
Maturing into painting coagulates a background in Cinema and Stage Art with a love for writing, combined with years of study and experimental research into territories of human thought and metaphysics, and on the overall an auto - didactic and
Dadaist approach to life.
Not exact matches
He is influenced by the notion of «tensegrity», proposed by Kenneth Snelson, the paintings and prints of Terry Winters, methods of unifying conscious and subconscious thought such as through Surrealist Automatism, and the
approach of
Dadaists to question the meaning of symbols.
Kippenberger's anarchic
approach followed the example of Marcel Duchamp and the
Dadaists, and also recalled Joseph Beuys and his utopian self - mythology.