Dada
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- was an informal art movement
- very controversial movement
- This art movement was a protest, but at the same time it managed to be enjoyable and amusing. It was sarcastic, colourful, silly.
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Is a form of artistic
anarchy, born out of disgust of social, political and cultural values of the
time.
- It
embraced elements of art, music, poetry, theatre, dance and politics.
-Dada
ranges from painting, photography, poetry, sculpture and collage.
Man Ray was lifelong
friends and collaborators with Marcel Duchamp.
He played a major
role in Dada and Surrealism movements in America as well as in Europe.
“To create is divine, to reproduce is human.”
Surrealism:
2
types of surrealism one was the early dream work by Salvador Dali and Rene
Margritte and the other type was free form works by Max Ernst and Joan Miro.
Vladimir
Kush is another a surrealism artist, who was inspired by Salvador Dali.
Art Nouveau-
Art
nouveau was a movement that was associated with the decorative arts and
architecture during 1880’s-1914.
Many
artists drew inspiration for organic and geometric forms, this lead to the
development of elegant designs that explored natural forms.
Mackintosh was the most
famous as the United Kingdom’s greatest promoter of Art Nouveau
Charles
Rennie Mackintosh preferred to work with simplistic designs, instead of the
popular elaborate designs that other artists favoured.
Abstract expressionism:
Abstract expressionism developed in New York in
1940
This style related to the post-war mood of anxiety and trauma
Jackson Pollock studied under Thomas Hart Benton
before leaving traditional techniques to explore abstraction expressionism by
splattering paint and action pieces, which involved pouring paint and other media
directly onto canvases. Capturing the anxiety and trauma.
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