Movement When Where Artist Key Characteristics Modernist Topic Pictorialism Julia Margaret Cameron Louis Daguerre The use or creation of pictures or visual images a movement or technique in photography emphasizing artificial often romanticized Pictorial qualities Used as representation of people and historical events Machine aesthetic Impressionism 1870 - 1890 France Alfred Sisley A theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s‚ Characterized
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Dada is an art movement which began in 1916 in Zurich‚ Switzerland. Encompassing all aspects of art including literature‚ manifestos‚ theatre and visual arts‚ the Dadaists strived to create works which rejected the laws and societal values of the time. They described their works as anti-art‚ and much of it was anarchistic protest‚ particularly in German Dada which was a response to World War I. Dada is a satirical and anti aesthetic projection of what the artists thought of society. Dada was displayed
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to Suzanne Duchamp: "One of my female friends who had adopted the pseudonym Richard Mutt sent me a porcelain urinal as a sculpture."[4] Duchamp never identified his collaborator‚ but two candidates have been proposed as collaborators. First‚ the Dadaist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven‚ whose scatological aesthetics are more in line with the choice of a urinal as art than Duchamp’s;[5] and second‚ Louise Norton‚ who contributed an essay to The Blind Man discussing Fountain. Since ’Dada’
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in the 20th century‚ emphasizing the subconscious or spontaneous meaning of imagery created by reflex or intuition (Surrealism‚ 2013). Surrealism began in Europe and developed from the Dadaist period. Surrealism is distinguished by an irrational‚ improbable collection of impressions. While similar to the Dadaist period‚ it was less violent and more artistically based. This could be attributed to the fact the it did not surface until the end of World War I. The first major work‚ the Surrealist Manifesto
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They were “utterly revolted by the butchery of the World War. Dada was international in scope beginning in New York and Switzerland and spreading to other areas. Dada was more of a mindset or attitude than a singular identifiable style. The Dadaists believed reason and logic had been responsible for the unmitigated disaster of world war‚ and they concluded that the only route to salvation was through political anarchy‚ the irrational‚ and the intuitive. Thus‚ an element of absurdity is a cornerstone
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Art is a powerful medium of communication with the world at large‚ artists hold the power to influence the way people think and live. Art defines our consciousness; therefore‚ it can impart and instruct as well as entertain at the same time. -artists serve the function of being role models in society because of their far reaching influence so it is obligatory on their part that they seek to establish a correlation between a proper ethical conduct and their artistic expression How best to define
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Tristan Tzara‚ Seven Dada Manifestoes Tristan Tzara describes a manifesto as‚ “a communication addressed to the whole world‚ in which there is no other pretension than the discovery of a means of curing instantly political‚ astronomical‚ artistic‚ parliamentary agronomic and literary syphilis. It can be gentle‚ good-natured‚ it is always right‚ it is strong‚ vigorous and logical” (Tzara 86). Tzara focuses on a variety of topics in his manifestoes. All of these revolve around a central idea‚ Dada
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man’s name instead of keeping their own‚ and what these things mean. When she moved to New York in 1916‚ she left her husband‚ wishing to divorce him‚ and her children‚ whom she left with a nurse. This is where she met Arthur Cravan‚ a self-styled Dadaist. He fled to Mexico to avoid the draft‚ and Loy followed him when her divorce was final. They were married in Mexico City in 1918‚ and lived in poverty there for many years. When she found out that she was pregnant‚ she traveled on a hospital ship
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DADA AND PUNK It is difficult to estimate when people began to create different theories‚ movements and ideologies with regards to what is positive and negative in the world that we live in. A part and parcel of human nature has always been an individual desire to be a part of the perfect world which unfortunately is mainly stimulated by individuals in power. Therefore this bore a disagreement and critique among minorities and has been exploding over the centuries in different
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What is Anti-Art? Introduction I am going to be writing about anti-art and what it is. I feel that before I can fully explore this concept in more depth‚ I must first look at the question ‘What is art?’ and ‘How do we know it is art?‘. To understand what art is‚ you have to look at its surroundings‚ the art world‚ you have the people who make the art work‚ the painters‚ the sculptors etc. Then you have the people that exhibit the work‚ and finally you have the viewers‚ the people who attend
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