Sentences with phrase «anti-art dadaist»

And his detractors were not wrong when they said that he could be bombastic, a man whose understandable impatience with bland formalist abstraction and the art world's ever - growing anti-art Dadaist shenanigans led him to sentimentalize the virtues of a return to representational painting, as if some particular style could save the day.

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He might equally well have asked how the anti-art subversive pranks of the Dadaists and Surrealists were transformed to become fertile material for the imaginations of true painters like Arshile Gorky.

True, Dada was essentially anti-art, but the years during which it flourished 1916 - 1922 were marked by great polarization and political strife, and as soon as things calmed down most Dadaists became Surrealists.

Outraged by the carnage and immorality of the War, Dadaists were anti-war, anti-art, and determined to ridicule what they considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world.

Dada International «anti-art» movement originating in Zurich c. 1916, involving Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, Francis Picabia, among others; a forerunner of Surrealism; hence Dadaism, Dadaist.