Dankook UniversityIntroduction to Modern Art

and Culture:

Lecture VA: DADA

• anti-aesthetics – A term referring to negation and an accompanying aesthetics of negation; or an aesthetics of opposition; or an aesthetics of the anti.

• Anti-art - Art that rejects conventional theories, forms, techniques, materials, and traditional methods of display of an artwork. Examples of Ant-art are Dada, and its tradition such as Neo-Dada. Marcel Duchamp (French-American, 1887-1968) is credited with introducing the term c. 1914.

• absurd – Ridiculous or unreasonable. Also refers to the view that there is no order or value in human life or in the universe — human beings exist in a meaningness, irrational world, and lives have no purpose or meaning.

• nihilism - (from the Latin nihil, nothing) is the philosophical idea suggesting the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Paradoxically, nihilism has been an important motivation behind much modern art. Adjectival form is nihilistic.

• irrational – without the faculty of reason; deprived of reason;without or deprived of normal mental clarity or sound judgment;not in accordance with reason; utterly illogical.iconoclast, iconoclasm - Iconoclasm is the destruction of images. Originally, one

who destroys sacred religious images (or icons); more broadly, the attacking of established beliefs. In the nineteenth century "iconoclast" took on the secular sense that it has today: one who breaks traditions, doctrines, convictions, practices, etc.

• accident, accidental - anything that happens by chance; uncontrolled occurrence. Although traditionally this may be considered as a negative quality, an accident can also be taken as a positive thing, as an opportunity, and it is often seen in this way in relation to modern art and design.

• automatism - sometimes referred to as ‘pure psychic automatism’. A process of making artworks mechanically, randomly, or by unconscious free association (rather than under the control of a conscious artist). Also called automatic drawing, painting, sculpture or writing

• ambiguity - A condition when something which can have to two or more possible meanings. Many works of art are characterized by a strong sense of ambiguity.

• ambiguous – open to having two or more possible meanings.

• improvisation – a presentation made without planning, or a spontaneous creative act.

• inspiration - A sudden brilliant idea. The condition or quality of being stimulated to creative thought or activity. Somebody or something that stimulates a person to a high level of feeling, to creative thought, or to achieve the making of art. To those who are religious, inspiration may be considered something caused by divine guidance and influence on human beings. An inspired person feels that he or she can achieve something difficult or special.

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona LisaMarcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q

Dada magazine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqkIJ0odFxA

Tristan Tzara

Dada theatrehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkl92oV1kMc

Hans Arp

Kurt Schwitters

Schwitters’ Merzbau

Raoul Haussmann

Dad Exhibition, Berlin, 1921.

George Grosz

Max Ernst

Ernst, The Elephant Celebes, 1921

Francis Picabia

Marcel DuchampFountain, 1917

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Batchelor, Even’, 1915-1923

Duchamp, Ready-made

Duchamp, Adjusted ready-made

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeosT_6vG7g

Dada film by Hans Richter