exquisite corpse

the image was acquired through the imagination of the teenage mind and the creativity relates to surrealism ideals because of the irrational juxtaposition of images and releases the unconcious ideas of the mind

dada studio experimentation

dada final

color block

cut copy rearrange

halftone 

MoMA & Dada

Dada

World War I and Dada

The role of visual art in dada "is that it was an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in" (Hugo Ball) Modernity was embraced in dada with references to technology, films, ads, newspaper, whatever that defined contemporary life. It was ready made artwork, which challenges the notion of the work of art as something beautiful made by a technically skilled artist. . Dada is irony, dad is anti art, Dada will kick you in the behind . The word itself is nonsense. Dada was chosen at random by stabbing a knife into a dictionary.Dada was an art movement that emerged during the early 19th century in response to the brutality of the World War 1 The war was a symbol of degradation of corruption and violence. In order to make people realize this, changing conventional definitions of art will spark attention as well as rational thought and question of the war itself. The start of the dad movement was formed by the people who were against the War and it was a way of composing their disgust and thoughts of the War through art, but not the typical way of art where it's paintings, but more like junk and trash to make people juxtapose it with the war. French artist Jean Hans stated that "it was to destroy the hoaxes of reason and to discover an unreasoned order".

Marcel Duchamp and the Readymade

Readymades is a termed coined by Marcel Duchamp to describe prefabricated, often mass produced objects isolated from their functional context and raised to the status of art by the simple act of the artist's selection and designation. Readymades broke the rules of the traditional idea of art, that it must be beautiful, visually pleasing. Instead of the traditional idea of art that it has to be visually pleasing, paint, by using random objects of what just seems like junk to people evoke reaction and question, that it's not about how aesthetic the work looks, but to create thought and question, reflection. 

Chance Creations: Collage, Photomontage, and Assemblage

Dada artists embraced chance, accident, and improvisation.

A form of personal protest was displayed through the tools of collages, assemblages, and photomontages, to critique the increasingly mechanized, violent world in which they lived in. The dada artist's could attack the bourgeoisie through the message hidden in their artwork.

Artist Collaboration

Dadaist believed that the value of art lays not in the word created, but in the act of making and working with others to create new visions of the world. 

Word Play

Dadaists would unleash an abundance of puns, wordplay, and experimental poetry and literature by turning words and letters into abstract forms, by stripping the legibility out. These were meant to expose the relationship between the words and their meanings. A painter remarked that there has never been a group that have gone all their way to reach the public and bring it nothing. 

DADA Poem

Real Eyes Realize Real Lies

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Real Lies Realize Real Eyes