Dada, Surrealism, and After
Dada:
-Began during WWI
-Protest against war, society, and old social order
Contributions:
-Appropriation
-Assemblage
-Construction
-Conceptual Art
-Chance
Some Dada Artists:
-Jean Arp
-Hugo Ball
-Kurt Schwitters
-Marcel Duchamp
Hugo Ball opened Cabaret Voltaire in 1916 in Switzerland.
A group of the Dada artists moved to Berlin.
In 1924 there was a group in Paris that was interested in new forms of expression that morph into surrealism.
We watched a few videos made by Dada artists that were pretty interesting. They were definitely not like anything I have seen before.
Spring 2011 WASHers
13 years ago
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