"Art needs an operation." - Tristan Tzara , 1919 "Before Dada was there, there was Dada."
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"Art needs an operation."- Tristan Tzara, 1919
"Before Dada was there, there was Dada."- Hans Arp, 1919
"The normal state of man is Dada."- First International Dada Fair poster, 1919
"The true dadas are against Dada."- First International Dada Fair poster, 1919
"Trespassers will not be prosecuted."- Inscription on drawing exhibited at Dada-Early Spring exhibition, 1920
"Dada has never claimed to have anything to do with art."- Max Ernst, 1920
Case Study 3: CURIOUS VISIONS - Introducing Dada
Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887–1968)L.H.O.O.Q., 1919, rectified readymade: pencil on reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
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Dada started in 1916 (during WW I) in Switzerland, where many were seeking refuge the war. The name ‘Dada’ means ‘rocking horse’ and was found by dropping a pin into a dictionary. (Typical of Dada, to find the name of an art movement by the laws of chance.) The Café Voltaire, started by Hugo Ball, became a venue for all sorts of performances with dance, spoken word, costumes. Ball is seen here wearing a weird costume, performing a sound poem which has no meaning. This kind of artmaking was totally new.
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Gustave Courbet (French 1819-1877), A Burial at Ornans, 1849-50, oil on canvas, 315 x 668 cm
Eduard Manet (French 1832-1883), Luncheon on the Grass, 1862-3, oil on canvas, 208 cm × 266 cm
Honore Daumier (French, 1808 – 1879) The Laundress, 1863(?) oil on wood, 49 x 33cm
Review of The Body: session 2
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Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) Woman with a parasol, 1875, oil on canvas, 100 x 81cm Auguste Renoir (French,1841-1919) Luncheon
of the boating party, 1880-81, oil on canvas, 130 x 176cm
Berthe Morisot (French, 1841-1895) Young woman knitting, c. 1883, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm.
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Mary Cassatt, Woman Bathing, 1890–91, drypoint and aquatint ( a printing process) 36 x 27 cm.
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926) Maternal Caress, 1891, Drypoint and soft-ground etching, 37 x 27cm.
Utamaro, (Japanese) Midnight, Hours of the Rat, mother and sleepy child,woodblock print 1791
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Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863 – 1944) The Scream, 1893, oil, tempera & pastel on canvas, 91 x 74cm.
Kathe Kollwitz, (German 1867-1945), Woman with dead child, etching, 42 x 48cm, 1903
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Otto Dix (Germany 1891 – 1969) Der Krieg, (The War), Plate 6 of 50, 1924, etching & aquatint20 x 29cm
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German,1880 - 1938) Standing nude (caryatid), painted wood, 1909-10,