Collage

Jasper Johns- Racing Thoughts

Dada art and Collage

Hannah Hoch- Cut with the kitchen knife

The dadaists imitated the techniques developed during the cubist movement through the pasting of cut pieces of paper items, but extended their art to encompass items such as transportation tickets, maps, plastic wrappers, etc. to portray aspects of life, rather than representing objects viewed as still life.

Robert Rauschenberg- New Acquisitions

Robert Rauschenberg- Retroactive 1

Jean (Hans) Arp.- Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance).

One of the founders of the Dada movement in Zurich in 1916, Arp challenged existing notions of art and experimented with spontaneous and seemingly irrational methods of artistic creation. This work is one of several collages he made by scattering torn rectangular pieces of paper onto a paper support. He and other Dada artists embraced the notion of chance as a way of relinquishing control—a kind of depersonalization of the creative process that would influence many subsequent generations of artists. www.moma.org