DADAISM and SURREALISM 1922

DADAISM

• development of conceptual art

• the material/object isn’t important, only the concept

• nonsensical and ridiculous juxtapositions to shock audience out of complacency

• anti-war

• tear down boundaries, hierarchy, and status quo

• Duchamp

  • Fountain

    • readymade

    • urinal that was put upside down on a pedestal and signed with the factory’s name and the date

• Höch

  • Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany

    • pop culture heavy

    • collage purposefully made not seamless

    • photomontage

    • machinery and mutilated body similar to wat injuries

SURREALISM 1922

• freudian

• unexplainable/bizarre and evokes many associations and makes the viewer think

• Ray

  • The Gift

TERMS

• READYMADE

  • appropriated product positioned as art

• ASSISTED READYMADE

  • combining two or more found objects by taking them out of their normal context to give them a new meaning

• PHOTOMONTAGE

  • type of collage that retains the look/feel of pop culture and evokes machine-made and mass-produced with abrupt compositions