Nauman's Clown Torture videos borrow
Dadaist ideas about the procedures and operations of art making, but as Joanna Drucker describes, that is where their fine art referential ends: «The imagery and iconography of (Nauman's) work comes from a banal world of mass meditation, pop's playroom of neon and lettering.
In 1921, disillusioned with the reception given to
Dadaist ideas by New Yorkers he left America to live and work in Paris, where he created one of his best known Dadaist artworks: «Indestructible Object» (1923), a metronome with a photo of an eye attached to its clicking arm.
By asking people to name two nouns,
a Dadaist idea of Exquisite Corpse is created which is then painted as literally as possible.
Not exact matches
FRANK How can you resist the
idea of Michael Fassbender as a brilliant,
Dadaist rock «n» roll mastermind who wears a giant papier - maché head everywhere he goes?
That show marked a shift from the
idea of a constructivist, analytical and technological Colombo, attributed to him over the years by various Italian critics, to one that placed more emphasis on his
dadaist - surrealist links, which were formulated by the artist himself as a part of a thesis on Max Ernst and Dadaism, completed as part of his diploma at Milan's Accademia di Brera in 1959.
And so, from the
dadaists he adopted the
idea of teamwork (both as a member of Gruppo T and in his subsequent work) and a refusal to accept art as a sublimated activity that separates the perceiving subject from his or her own body or surroundings.
The European avant - garde artists after the First World War, the
Dadaists, Early Abstract artists, the Surrealists and the artists during the postwar years, continued with the challenging spirit and the progressive
ideas of the Cubism.
As Beuys borrowed
ideas from artists of other European nationalities (French Surrealists, Swiss
Dadaists), today's young Catalan artists are borrowing
ideas from him.
Third, again like
Dadaists, he believed that the
idea behind a work of art was more important than the work itself - a belief he held in common with the growing Conceptual art movement.
Putting this criticism into context, it is important to note that, after 400 years of Renaissance - dominated aesthetics - which decreed that painters and sculptors produce works of art from exclusively noble (and thus highbrow) subjects - the
idea of creating art from trivial, commonplace objects was irresistibly appealing to
Dadaists and their heirs.