Diyah Sewpershad BE.2022.R7Q7Y5
Dadaism
Dadaism was a movement with explicitly political overtones – a reaction to the senseless slaughter of the trenches of WWI. It essentially declared war against war, countering the absurdity of the establishment's descent into chaos with its own kind of nonsense.
Characteristics of Dadaism
Humour. Laughter is often one of the first reactions to Dada art and literature. ...
Whimsy and Nonsense. Much like humour, most everything created during the Dada movement was absurd, paradoxical, and opposed harmony. ...
Artistic Freedom. ...
Emotional Reaction. ...
Irrationalism. ...
Spontaneity.
Who was the father of Dadaism
The founder of dada was a writer, Hugo Ball. In 1916 he started a satirical night-club in Zurich, the Cabaret Voltaire, and a magazine which, wrote Ball, 'will bear the name ”Dada”. Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada.
What kind of art is Dadaism?
The art of the movement spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing, and sculpture. Dadaist artists expressed their discontent toward violence, war, and nationalism, and maintained political affinities with radical left-wing and far-left politics.
What was the purpose of dadaism?
Infamously called the “anti-art” art movement, Dadaism developed out of disgust and resentment from the bloodshed and horror of World War I, which began in 1914 and ended in 1918. Dadaism's main purpose was to challenge the social norms of society, and purposefully make art that would shock, confuse, or outrage people.
Surrealism
a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
What is the main idea of surrealism?
Surrealism aims to revolutionise human experience. It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams. The movement's artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional.
Characteristics of surrealism
Dream-like scenes and symbolic images.
Unexpected, illogical juxtapositions.
Bizarre assemblages of ordinary objects.
Automatism and a spirit of spontaneity.
Games and techniques to create random effects.
Personal iconography.
Visual puns.
Distorted figures and biomorphic shapes.
Rene Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist, who became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.
De Stijl
De Stijl, meaning 'Style' was a modern art movement developed in the Netherlands in the early twentieth century. Encompassing painting, architecture, and design, de Stijl was founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesberg in 1917 based upon strict ideals of vertical and horizontal geometry.
What is the De Stijl style?
De Stijl was a circle of Dutch abstract artists who promoted a style of art based on a strict geometry of horizontals and verticals.
Characteristics of De Stijl
Straight lines: De Stijl art features clean and straight vertical and horizontal lines that intersect to form right angles. Primary colours: De Stijl artists used primary colours—red, yellow, and blue—plus black and white. These colours do not touch or blend, and straight lines typically divide the colours.
What made De Stijl famous
Proponents of De Stijl advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour.
Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis Mondrian, after 1906 Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
What style of art of Piet Mondrian?
Although he is best known for his abstract paintings made from squares and rectangles, Piet Mondrian started out painting realistic scenes.
