Sentences with word «dadaism»

He formed a group named Xiamen Dada in 1986, which published manifestos and staged provocative events in the vein of Dadaism in the late 1980s, and rose to prominence as a core founding member.
With black French netting framing her face like a fencing mask, she ferociously espouses Dadaism in a tone that suggests she's excoriating the dead in the guise of praise.
Many other abstract art movements since have also famously included collage, such as Dadaism and Abstract Expressionism.
A French - American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work has been associated with Dadaism and many other avant - garde movements, Marcel Duchamp is commonly considered as one of the artists who helped define the revolutionary developments in plastic arts in the begining of the twentieth century.
Naturally, we need to separate the specific historical events that originated Dadaism from the thematic ties that bind the principle, giving us a more modern conception of it.
Like Saul, Bellot utilizes humor, but his is a more light - hearted sort of playfulness influenced by Dadaism and Absurdism.
This aura of cool is continually renewed in art (see Dadaism) and business (consider Apple's «Think Different» campaign).
Compared with the well - known Dadaism, Futurism, Surrealism — the art movement Fluxus, as obscure as it was, probably owns its fame chiefly to Joseph...
This remarkable exhibition of Franciszka Themerson UBU takes us back to the dawn of Modernism and the play that paved the way for Dadaism, Surrealism and the «Theatre of the Absurd».
«A work of latter - day Dadaism... an expression of the same humanist - horror that Tod Browning imparted in his pre-Code classic Freaks.
[4] While pop art and Dadaism explored some of the same subjects, pop art replaced the destructive, satirical, and anarchic impulses of the Dada movement with a detached affirmation of the artifacts of mass culture.
Kippenberger's punk temperament, audacious motifs and chaotic picture compositions are part of an artistic tradition that embraces Dadaism and Pop art and includes fellow countrymen such as Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke.
While Dadaism used collage as a political critique meant to shock conservatives, Surrealism's concerns were of a different nature: its interest was in the human condition itself and so the juxtaposition of images made through cut and paste was directed towards imitating the psychological processes that take place in the mind, like dreaming, when subjects from daily life are picked up and moved and remixed by the psyche to form a new narrative.
One is Western Dadaism from 100 years ago; the other is Chinese Buddhism of the Tang and Song dynasties from 1,000 years ago.
But it's been around in various manifestations since Dadaism, Futurism, and the Surrealists, and came into its own through the compositions of John Cage in the 1950s.
«When I came across this [Dadaism]... well, it had nothing to do with me... but when my work started developing, I sort of realized, not consciously but with surprise, that possibly it did indeed have something to do with my work» (interview with G. Swenson, ARTnews, 1964, p. 64).
Performa 17 demands close considerations of today's most pressing social issues, tackling the multiplicity of African identities, how performance is shaped by the built environment and vice versa, and how Dadaism remains salient in the subversive consciousness of contemporary artists.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Johns employed new techniques and mediums — including cross-hatching and lithographs — resulting in increasingly abstract works approaching Dadaism.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and installation art.
Flitting somewhere between these icons and the entrance of New Dadaism, the stories of found and recycled pieces of wood and metal acted as peripatetic objects, each bearing a narrative to be taken and reformed as an elusive, matt black shadows within a larger piece.
In addition, the avant - garde «ready - mades» created by Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)- such as Bicycle Wheel (1913, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris), Bottle Rack (1914, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris) and Fountain (1917, copy in Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris)- were also quintessential Dadaism, in that they undermined the conventions of academic art.
The large volume collector's book features a survey of Modern and Contemporary art including the movements of Modernism, Abstract Expressionsim, Neo Dadaism, pop Art, Minimalism, and Surrealism.
This time about a powerful and productive, yet often underestimate member of the German Dadaism: Hannah Höch, key figure in the history of collages, who profoundly influenced her time and those to come.
Perhaps best known for his forays into Dadaism and surrealism «ones which suggest affiliations with trickery and anti-art «Picabia was also a draughtsman and painter.
American critic Michael Fried, in the essay «Art and Objecthood» (1967), apotheosized «art» in contrast to «theatricality» — another version of Greenberg's elevation of formal art over literary art, more particularly of Cubism over Dadaism — arguing that «it is by virtue of their presentness and instantaneousness that modernist painting and sculpture defeat theater.»
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.
Often associated with Minimalism and Conceptualism — with elements of Surrealism, Pop Art, and Dadaism thrown in for good measure — John Baldessari's work exceeds these strict parameters, which, in the artist's own words, can be «a little bit boring.»
Op art includes graphic elements and use of color that similarly appears in works from other movements such as Post Impressionism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Dadaism Edna Davis Wright was born on January 25, 1917 in Portsmouth, Virginia.
• The Absurd A lingering Dadaism or anti-establishment feeling: during the 1920s, this found its feet as Surrealism, a hugely influential movement which sought a new «super-realism» in a medium which incorporated representational, abstract and semi-abstract art.
Schwitters was a significant figure in European Dadaism who invented the concept of Merz — «the combination, for artistic purposes of all conceivable materials».
Arguably one of today's leading artists, Mickalene Thomas stands out from the pack because of her ability to own the legacy of Dadaism as a black lesbian woman.
Organized by Wadsworth Atheneum Director and CEO Susan Talbott, this selection of nearly 50 works examined social history, identity and race, as well as nostalgia for the traditional portraits that once defined photography, and outlines the transformation of photographic portraiture throughout modernist movements such as Dadaism and Surrealism.
You would initially associate Schwitters with Dadaism, however just looking through this major exhibition in the Tate Britain you will find scraps of the surrealists and the cubists; despite this it does feel that he didn't belong in any of these movements, always trying something new or something very bland and documentary, for example his portraits or his landscapes in which he had friends commission him for.
The Brooklyn - based artist is inspired by Dadaism, memories from her -LSB-...]
Compared with the well - known Dadaism, Futurism, Surrealism — the art movement Fluxus, as obscure as it was, probably owns its fame chiefly to Joseph Beuys.
takes us back to the dawn of Modernism and the play that paved the way for Dadaism, Surrealism and the «Theatre of the Absurd».
Dadaism in the end teemed with such barbarisms.
Dadaism was attempting to achieve those effects which the public today seeks in film with the means of painting (or of literature)» (Benjamin, op.
Surrealism, dadaism, the writings of James Joyce and, later, Samuel Beckett — all proclaimed a world that has lost its story, and, along with its story, its coherence, purpose, and promise.
One wonders what his Potters team - mates will make of his life away from the game, Shea is an abstract artist, no doubt something he can chat about with Ryan Shawcross, who is himself a big fan of Dadaism.
In reality, normcore is ultimate «anti-trend» trend, something equivalent to the Dadaism of fashion, for there are no rules and even breaking them is endorsed.
Chiara's «Material Puns» use wordplay to weld the title of the painting with the materials placed on canvas, through an ironic reinterpretation of Pop - Art, Dadaism and Ready Made.
The absurd pair's bowler hats give the film a whiff of Dadaism and René Magritte's Surrealist paintings, while the in - bred Van Peteghems, including Aude and André's idiot brother Christian (Jean - Luc Vincent), invoke Monty Python's «upper - class twits» — Pythonesque, too, is the severed foot La Loute's mother offers her hungry brood — or even the self - indulgent gentry of Jean Renoir's La Règle du Jeu (1939).
Simply put, Human Nature has the dadaism but falls short of any of the novelty that made Charlie Kaufman a recognizable name among modern screenwriters.
Two - time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett plays 13 different characters in a series of vignettes embodying the artistic and political manifestos of Communism, Dadaism, Futurism, Minimalism, Surrealism, and other movements in this film by German visual artist Julian Rosefldt.
These selected quotes on Dada / Dadaism are taken from the Dutch famous art critic Jacob Bendien.
Dada / Dadaism and the Dadaist artists are here in short described and explained are in short described and explained for art students, pupils and maybe even for art teachers - Dada as the most revolting modern art movement, incl.
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