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Dada and Neue Sachlichkeit. Dada. The attitude of the Dadaists toward war differed from that of the Futurists in that
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Dada The attitude of the Dadaists toward war differed from that of the Futurists in that The Dadaists were revolted at the butchery of the World War. They 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. The Futurists believed war had a cleansing action. They depicted war in a sanitized way.
Otto Dix The Trench 1923 (destroyed 1943-45)oil on canvas
Otto Dix Trench Suicide 1924ink on paper
John Heartfield Adolf the Superman: Swallows Gold and Spouts Junk 1932photomontage
John Heartfield Have No Fear, He’s a Vegetarian 1936photomontage
Jean Arp utilized “chance” in his work for one collage, he took sheets of paper, tore them into roughly shaped squares, haphazardly dropped them onto a sheet of paper on the floor, and glued them down. Chance helped Arp preserve a certain mysterious vitality in his work. Jean Arp Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance 1916-17 torn and pasted paper 19 1/8 x 13 5/8 in.
Marcel Duchamp Tu’m 1918 oil and graphite on canvas, brush, safety pins, nut and bolt 27 ft. 6 in. x 10 ft. 2 3/4 in.
A “readymade” is a mass-produced common objects (found objects) the artist selects and sometimes “rectifies” by modifying their substance or combining them with another object. It was developed by Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel 1913assemblage 23 3/4 in. high
Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917 porcelain urinal
Photomontage are many images pasted together into one image, a technique used in early German art postcards. The technique was developed by the Berlin Dadaists, particularly Hannah Höch. Hannah Höch Cut with the Cake Knife 1919-20 photomontage 11 7/8 x 35 3/8 in.
Schwitters used the term merz as a generic title for a whole series of collaged images; it derives from the word “kommerzbank” (commerce bank), which appeared in one of his collages. Kurt Schwitters, Merz 19 (1920)
TRANSATLANTIC ARTISTIC DIALOGUES The Eight Eight American artists who gravitated into the circle of the influential and evangelical artist and teacher Robert Henri. They eventually became the Ashcan School. They produced images depicting the rapidly changing urban landscape of New York City.
Critics in general found the show to be “pathological,” and one critic described the Futurist-Cubist style painting as “an explosion in a shingle factory.” An influential work that was exhibited at the Armory show which particularly shocked the public was Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp. Early 1913, in the armory of the New York National Guard’s 69th Regiment. It was one of the major vehicles for disseminating information about European artistic developments in the United States. The show contained more than sixteen hundred works by American and European artists. Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase (No.2)/Nu descendant un Escalier. No.2.1912. Oil on canvas 147.5 x 89 cm. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Inspired by the photographic motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge
The founder of the Photo‑Secession group and Gallery 291 was Alfred Steiglitz. • Thetype of photography he practiced was “Straight, unmanipulated” photographs. The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz. This version was published in 291 in 1915
The American photographer who was interested in photographic abstraction was Edward Weston. Edward Weston Nude 1925gelatin-silver print
Man Ray expressed the ideas of Dada in that he incorporated found objects into many of his works. He used chance and the dislocation of ordinary things to surprise viewers, as well as humor. Man Ray Gift 1921 flatiron with nails 6 1/2 in. high
Two American artists who were influenced by Cubism: Marsden Hartley Stuart Davis Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964) Lucky Strike 1921. Oil on canvas, 33 1/4 x 18" (84.5 x 45.7 cm). Gift of The American Tobacco Company, Inc.
Precisionism Two traits shared by the so-called Precisionists, one thematic, one stylistic: Thematic: a fascination with the machine’s precision and importance in modern life. Stylistic: Tended towards Synthetic Cubism’s flat, sharply delineated planes.
The Harlem Renaissance The flowering of art and literature in Harlem in the 1920s. It was a manifestation of the desire of African Americans to promote their cultural accomplishments, to cultivate pride among their fellow African Americans, and to spread racial tolerance across the United States. Aaron Douglas (1899-1979) Noah's Ark, 1935 Oil on Masonite, 48 × 36 in. (121.9 × 91.4 cm)
Charles Sheeler Upper Deck 1929
Charles Demuth My Egypt 1927oil on composition board2 ft. 11 3/4 in. x 2 ft. 6 in.
Two artists who are considered Precisonists: Charles Demuth Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe Radiator Building—Night 1927oil on canvas48 x 30 in.
Style: • She strips the subjects to their purest forms and colors to heighten their expressive power, reducing details to a symphony of basic colors, shapes, textures, and vital rhythms, almost to the point of complete abstraction. Although the artist Georgia O’Keeffe was first associated with the Precisionists in New York, she is best known for her work in New Mexico. Two of her favorite subjects werecow skulls and flowers. Georgia O’Keeffe Jack in the Pulpit IV 1930oil on canvas
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986) Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, 1931Oil on canvas 39 7/8 x 35 7/8 in. (101.3 x 91.1 cm)Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1952 (52.203)
NeueSachlichkeit The New Objectivity The purpose of NeueSachlichkeit artists: All of the artists served at some point in the German army and thus had firsthand involvement with the military, which deeply informed their worldview and their art. Three artists associated with the movement: George Grosz Max Beckmann Otto Dix
The type of subject is George Grosz most famous: Caustic indictments of the military. George Grosz Fit for Active Service (The Faith Healers) 1916-17pen, brush, ink on paper20 x 14 3/8 in.
Max Beckmann The Night 1918-19oil on canvas55 1/2 x 37 3/4 in.
Otto Dix Der Kreig 1929-1932 oil and tempera on wood6 ft. 8 1/3 in. x 13 ft. 4 3/4 in.
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Seated Youth, composite tinted plaster 1918; in the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany.
Ernst Barlach, Angel (Guestrow Cathedral War Monument, Cologne, Germany, 1927)