Dada and Surrealism (final)

Hans Arp, Squares Arranged According to the Law of Chance, 1917

• Dada

• Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich)

• Chance college

• “Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless, and impossible to justify

Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q, 1919

• She is hot in the arse → she is hot in the ass

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1950

• originally made in 1917

*Duchamp, battle Rack, 1914, 159s replica, Art Institute of Chicago

• readymade

• “assisted” readymade

Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1913

*Marcel Duchamp, The Large Glass, 1915-23, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Man Ray, Object to be Destroyed, 1923

• Instructions on how to create the object and destroy it

Man Ray, Gift, 1958

• iron w/ tacks

Rene Magritte, Le fils de l’homme (The Son of Man), 1964

• everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see

Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931

Salvador Dali, Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire

Salvador Dali, Soft Construction iwth Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) 1936

Leonora Carrington, Self-Portrait, 1938

Frida Kahlo, The Broken Column, 1944

Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City