Dada

Dada! (early 20th Century)
HobbyHorse in french


Founder, Hugo Ball, transformed the cafe 'Cabaret Voltaire' into one of the leading art centers of the world. This movement Dada, in Zurich,  had many different artists, member and concepts.
Dada was inspired by the futurists movement. It completely rejected the past, enjoying noise music etc.
Dada's program was to have no program, accepting anything and everything, freeing art from commercialization, but allowing art to be personal for the artist, not for social happiness.

They felt that if art truly reflects our lives, then we need to incorporate the element of chance, in fact the name Dada was found by accident, the flip of a dictionary just by chance.

Dada was more a state of mind then an actual process. Just an attack against society.

I love Dada!!!

Hugo Ball read this sound poem as one of his art pieces, read slowly and solemnly. enjoy

Karawana
olifanto bambla o falli bambla
großiga m'pfa habla horem
russula huju
egiga goramen
higo bloiko
 hollaka hollala
anlogo bung
ataka
ü üü ü
schampa 
blago bung blago bung
bosso 
fwulla wussa olobo
hej tatta gorem
eschige zunbada
wulubu ssubudu uluwu ssubudu
–umf
kusa gauma
ba–umf

He is breaking apart language.

Marcel Duchamp believed that art should be intellectual more then aesthetically pleasing. It's not aesthetic, but more about thinking. 'Art is hard.'

His most famous work, and the one that i love to quote and talk about is his work called 'The Fountain' 1917.

The Fountain, Marcel Duchamp 1917

He entered this piece into an open exhibition, which was rejected. This did not surprise him, thus Duchamp wrote a rebuttal about it saying, wether it is a urinal or not, it was chosen by the artist. No it's not about the urinal placed on its side, but its about the concept, the phycological thought side. He believes that we can not base art on imagery but on concept.
He has challenged the whole world with this new Avante Guarde approach.

Marcel Duchamp was the creator of conceptual art, well above and beyond his time. He uses ready mades, and found objects, taking items manufactured and edits them by placement or slight changes.

Jean Arp Another Dadaist wrote this,
"Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War, we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts. While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell. We had a dim premonition that power-mad gangsters would one day use art itself as a way of deadening men's minds." -Dadaland (1948)