Europe during the war

Retinal art

purpose to make your eyes happy. Said by marcel duchamp, dada artist 20th c

What is the background of Dada art?

Nihilism, no meaning, reflects madness around them from the devastating and horrifying art. Artists feel guilty for participating in the cultural apparatus of the world with these terrors. Lean into the madness

Dada artists

Duchamp, Hannah Hoch

conceptual art

Is the artwork the idea or the object itself?

What artwork emphasizes the question about conceptual artwork?

Object with a hidden noise, 1916, Marcel Duchamp, Dada

Fountain, 1917, Marcel Duchamp, Dada, 20th c

Nude Descending a Staircase, Marcel Duchamp, at the Armory Show, 20th c Dadaish

Object with a hidden noise, 1916, Marcel Duchamp

20th c Dada Something inside makes noise, but we don't know what it is. If we know what it is then it wouldn't be art. The noise was put in by his friend that is hidden from him as well. Something he could not make himself. Beginning of conceptual art. Is the artwork the idea or the object itself?

What does Dada mean?

refers to meaninglessness. Random word in dictionary means hobbyhorse. Nonsense syllables, name is pointless.

Hannah hoch, Cut with the dada kitchen knife through the last beer-belly cultural epoch germany, 1919

Dada 20th c.

What does the word surreality based off of?

there's a reality we experience that is outside of traditions and conscious reality. Superreality.

Biomorphic surrealism

abstract with a sense of biological/cell-like objects

Painting 1933, Joan Miro, Biomorphic Surrealism

Joan Miro, Painting 1933

Surrealism, Biomorphic Surrealism

Rene Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1928 Surrealism.

Rene Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1928

Surrealism. This is not a pipe. Its a picture of a pipe. Images are liars and not actually the thing you think they are.

The Persistence of Memory 1931, Salvador Dali

What artist uses weird barren landscapes, apocalyptic zones, representational surrealism. Uses objects and forms we can recognize but presented in a weird way.

salvador Dali

How does Freud and Dada create surrealism?

maybe the automatic and unconscious meanings are actually more meaningful than we thought. Maybe there is a reality beyond cultural traditions and what we are conscious of.

Surrealism artists

Dali, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro

Representational surrealism

recognizable forms in strange contexts like Salvador Dali Persistence of Memory and Rene Magritte, Treachery of Images