His quotes describe in essential the meaning, goals, and characteristics of Dadaism,
including the Dadaist artists of this critical art movement.
Not exact matches
FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground with the
Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition
includes his later work, which has influenced contemporary painters — perverse figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.
At the very least, Henry Codax has firmly aligned himself — or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he has been firmly aligned — with a tradition of fictional and pseudonymous artists that
includes French
Dadaist Marcel Duchamp masquerading as a woman named Rrose Selavy and the artist Richard Prince and dealer Colin de Land reportedly making work under the name John Dogg.
These stories
include Heinrich Vogeler's path to the Soviet Union,
Dadaist Tomoyoshi Murayama's sojourn in Berlin in the 1920s, and the collaborations between Nicolás García Uriburu and Joseph Beuys.
The
Dadaist movement
included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art / literary journals; passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture were topics often discussed in a variety of media.
Working across media
including hand - drawn animation and opera, he has become something of a rock star and was in top form with his rendition of a sound poem first presented by the
Dadaist Kurt Schwitters in 1932.
This experience probably reinforced his insight into the studies of light and the use of exhibition space and exposed him to the Impressionists, Colorists, Modernists, and
Dadaists whose influences are made explicit in his work through his practice of leaving pieces untitled yet dedicated to artists
including Mondrian, Brancusi, Jasper Johns, and Duchamp.
Though art historians often cite Futurists and
Dadaists among the first performance art practitioners, performance art first came into being as a discrete movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with early practitioners
including artist - shaman Joseph Beuys, Fluxus artist Yoko Ono and «Happenings» creator Alan Kaprow.
At the museum's Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, large - scale bronze works will be on view,
including Miffy Fountain (2008), a working fountain that co-opts the beloved children's book character created by Dutch author and illustrator Dick Bruna; a new edition of Sachs's bronze interpretation of a Buddhist stupa, Stupa (2012), created specifically for this exhibition; and Duralast (2008), a
Dadaist construction from the artist's series of «battery towers,» comprising a stack of automobile batteries rendered in bronze.
Dr. Richard Huelsenbeck, the Berlin
dadaist who had subsequently become a psychiatrist in New York, introduced Tinguely to a crowd of like - minded postmodernist artists,
including Rauschenberg, Stankiewicz, and Chamberlain, to cheer him on.
The founder of British Pop - art, Paolozzi trained at the Edinburgh College of Art (1943), St Martin's School of Art (1944), and at the Slade School of Art (1944 - 1947), before working in Paris, France (1947 - 1949) where he met and became influenced by a number of famous artists,
including the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, the former
Dadaist and Surrealist Jean Arp, the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, and the Cubists Georges Braque and Fernand Léger.
Key participants in these movements
include the Romanian activist Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963); the so - called father of Conceptual Art Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968); the lonely
Dadaist Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1948) and his «Merzbau» assemblage; the avant - garde composer John Cage (1912 — 1992) who created the the 4 - 33 «silent» symphony; Sol LeWitt (b. 1928) the High Priest of Conceptualism and his influential essay «Paragraphs on Conceptual Art» (1967); and the Assemblage exponent and main creator of «Happenings» Allan Kaprow (b. 1927).
Such stories
include Heinrich Vogeler's path to the Soviet Union,
Dadaist Tomoyoshi Murayama's sojourn in Berlin in the 1920s, and the collaborations between Nicolás García Uriburu and Joseph Beuys.
These
included: Little French Girl (1914 — 18), by Constantin Brancusi; an untitled still life (1916) by Juan Gris; a bronze sculpture (1919) by Alexander Archipenko; and three collages (1919 - 21) by the legendary German Hanoverian
Dadaist Kurt Schwitters.
Back in 2009, Christie's $ 490 million auction of the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé
included Duchamp's unique 1921
Dadaist perfume bottle, «Belle haleine — eau de voilette,» labeled with Man Ray's photo of the artist's female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy.
In 1986, he founded Xiamen Dada, a postmodern group mixing Zen Buddhism with
Dadaist surrealism, influenced by artists
including Joseph Beuys, John Cage and Marcel Duchamp.