Tuesday, 13 January 2015

DADA

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet. He influenced dada by suggesting the urinal to Duchamp.

Marcel Duchamp - He was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism and conceptual art,

The Fountain:-
It was voted as the iconic image of the 20th century and the most influential. Fountain was rejected by the committee, even though the rules stated that all works would be accepted from artists who paid the fee. Fountain was displayed and photographed at Alfred Stieglitz's studio, and the photo published in The Blind Man, but the original has been lost.



What is DADA? Dada was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. begun during first world war. Many claim Dada began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916, spreading to Berlin shortly thereafter but the height of New York Dada was the year before, in 1915 Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America. Artists had their aim to destroy what art was and to create their one new style.

Founder of dada was an German writer called Hugo Ball
He led the Dada movement in Zürich, and is one of the people credited with naming the movement "Dada", by allegedly choosing the word at random from a dictionary.

Dada comes from the dictionary. It is terribly simple. In French it means "hobby horse". In German it means "good-bye", "Get off my back", "Be seeing you sometime". In Romanian: "Yes, indeed, you are right, that's it. But of course, yes, definitely, right". And so forth.

In 1916 Hugo founded a nightclub called cabaret voltaire it was used for political proposes and by artists

Below is an image of Hugo performing at cabaret voltaire


Alfred Jarry influenced dada and himself was very absurd in his work. The first and most famous of Alfred Jarry's Ubu plays is Ubu Roi or Ubu Rex.




Ubu Roi:-
Ubu Roi is a play by Alfred Jarry. It was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, causing a riotous response in the audience as it opened and closed on December 10, 1896







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