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Dada Anti Bourgeois Grid Paintings
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Dada Anti-Bourgeois Grid Paintings
Dada*Began in 1916 as a negative reaction against the horrors of WWI
*Rejected reason and logic
*Prized nonsense, irrationality, and intuition
*Rejected prevailing standards in art
*Anti-war
*Anti-Bourgeois
Bourgeois • Middle class
• Conventional
• Conservative
• Conformist
• Follower
Anti-Bourgeois• Not of the Middle Class
• Unconventional
• Adventurous
• Unique, individual, different from the crowd
• Leader
Assignment • Pick an “underdog” hero who is Anti-
bourgeois, and incorporate imagery that tells his/her story in a painting:
• Different
• Leader
• Adventurous
• Strange (unconventional)
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Edgar Allen Poe• Credited with pioneering detective fiction and
science fiction
• Was one of the first American authors who tried to make a living on writing alone (which made it difficult for him financially)
• Focused on the dark and macabre
• Married his 13 year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm
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