DADA

DADA

Marcel Duchamp, BottleRack,1914

DADA  began in 1917 during world war 1, when a group of artists began expressing their disillusionment with society through collages and manifestos. It was a deliberately absurd and provocative avant-garde movement. It was also created in the response to the horrors of world war one. DADA artists rejected mass media and nationalist propaganda. DADA rejected society's idea of what art should be. It sort to be the opposite of art. They created meaning-less, reactive and non-rational art. It introduced a new way of looking at the world . They mocked materialism. Some of the main DADA artists were Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Arp and Tristan Tzara. The image above is by Marcel Duchamp. He called mass manufactured objects 'readymades'. He plucked the readymades from their everyday uses, put his signature to them, and displayed them as works of art. He subverted the very notion of art. 

 Stephen Krygier, Industrial decay, 2015, University of Michigan

This piece of artwork was influenced by one of Marcel Duchamp's readymade artworks. Choosing random objects and putting them together is itself a creative act. Taking out the objects useful function makes the object art. presenting the object and giving it a title gives the object new meaning. The readymade had defied the notion that art is beautiful. The piece argues about what art really is? The art work falls under conceptual art. The very thing Duchamp art lead to. Art that was in favour to the mind instead of vision art. 

Bibliography

Balshaw, M. (2018). Tate. Retrieved from Readymade: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/r/readymade

Kristiansen , D. M. ( 1968). What Is Dada? , 457-462 .

MoMalearning. (2018). Retrieved from World War I and Dada: https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/dada