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Cubism
Dada
Readymade
Iconoclast
Nude Descending
Staircase, Cubism,
1912
Influenced by
Picassos Cubism
With Picasso the
subject is seen from
different points of
view.
Here the subject is
depicted in motion.
He was influenced by
the photographs of
Muybridge.
Muybridge was
interested in using
photography to show
the figure in motion.
Muybridge
Dada
Dada is a movement, not a style.
It began as a reaction to middle-class
values, and the insanity of WWI.
It began as a literary movement, but soon
included the other arts.
It is meant to shock, and resulted in works
that are irrational, confrontational, and
even absurd.
Dada
Dada is based on chance, and not reason
or emotion like the art styles that came
before it.
Dada is anti-art, anti-beauty, anti-form,
and anti-traditional.
Duchamp became the unofficial leader of
Dada in the visual arts.
His work provokes the viewer to ask the
question: what is art?.
Dada
In Duchamps work the idea is more
important than the product, or even the
process.
Readymade
An industrial,
mass produced
object that is
exhibited as art.
It is not a new
object but on for
which a new idea
has been
created.
According to
Duchamps
theory an artist
needed to do
two things to
an object in
order to make
art.
1. Change its
context.
2. Displace its
function.
Duchamp said he
created it for his own
amusement.
It is similar to objects
used to demonstrate
laws of physics:
1. angular momentum
2. Centrifugal force
Duchamp
studied physics
as a hobby
while working
in a library.
This is a ready-made.
By choosing it,
imagining it as art,
and showing
in an
Bottle
Rack, it1914
exhibition, it became
art.
He even chose it
randomly (Dada).
Fountain, 1917
The subject is really
Aesthetics.
Aesthetics is the
philosophy of art and
beauty.
Duchamp wants the
viewer to look at it
and consider what art
really is.
He submitted the
work to an unjuried
show.
Unjuried means all
work submitted to a
show are hung
without judgement
about quality or taste.
The group hanging
the show (Society for
Independent Artists)
considered it too
shocking & distasteful
to hang.
L.H.O.O.Q ,1919
Pronounced in
French the title
of the work
phonetically
makes a joke out
of Da Vincis
masterpiece.
L.H.O.O.Q was a
direct attack on
Renaissance art,
and the standards
and conventions it
represented.
He put a moustache
on the Mona Lisa.
Like a vandal he
attacks traditional
views of art and
beauty.
This is exactly the
kind of thing an
iconoclast does.