Bullet Points on Dadaism.
Neo – Dada late 20th century.
Montage and photomontage as a technique.
Dada revolt against the culture and values, which believed caused and supported the carriage of ww1 (1914 – 1918).
Anti-war.
Big in Berlin.
Art Critic, 1919 – 1920.
Hausmann and Hoch.
(Find quote from 1958 from Hausmann).
John Heartfield free text by pouring wet plaster around the type. Ready for print.
- Traditional print fixed frame work – they changed this, by using plaster and bending the frame work, so they could put type any where on the page (we take this for advantage these days).
The two experimented with cut up pieces of newspaper and photos.
- Millian stand behind me. 1932.
Adolf the superman : swallows god and spat and junk.
Hoch, early feminist.
-Point out the faults of beauty culture.
- Work from 1926 to 1935 often showed some same sex couples.
Kurt Schwitters.
1918 applied to join Berlin Dadaist’s, but was rebuffed for his un-political attitude.
Opened his own branch of Dada, with own series..
Merzbild, Kurt Schwitters. More commercial than the others.
Dada Journal 1923 to 1932 – Merz,
Mainly typography and design.
- El Lissitzky.
- Theo van.
Neo – Dada.
1960 – revival of Dada ideas in neo-dada. Counter cultural, born of the 60’s. Fluxus group. International group.
(John Cage).
Rauschenbergs – wanted to create form of art with instant meaning, opposing to the intellectualism of Abstract expressionism.
Images from everyday objects.
Believed that art could be made out of anything. Believed ideas behind a work of art was more important than the work.
Punk – movement. Late 70’s mid 80’s.
Partly driven by economics and social disruptions. Like dada, anti – establishments, anti –art.
Present day. Nothird runaway, searching for evidents.
Co.Kerky.
Website – shredder. Info becomes graphics/text.
Present day – Benjamin Herie? Anti Iraq war.
- Essence of John Heartfield.
- Influence from dada.
Dada news feed takes lines from news and assembles a montage of text and image.
-Influence on graphics.
-Aesthetics and ideas re-occur during periods of fraction and frictions.
Wordle. Google terms to related to dada to research the subject.
Put key terms into wordle, it will make up a word cloud for you. You can edit text and colour.
Key words.
John Heartfield.
Hoch,
Photomontage.
Cutouts.
Montage.
Graphics.
Typography abstractions.
Anti-establishment.
Creators of Chance.
Western culture.
Political.
Anarchic revolt.
Zurich.
Switzerland.
Fluxus group.
Duchamp.
Task.
Make a poster from 'Frost' in the style of Dada.
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