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Rousseau, The Dream , 1910. Odilon Redon, Cyclops , c. 1912. Chagall, Paris Through a Window , 1913. Chagall, I and The Village , 1911. Giorgio de Chirico, The Soothsayer's Recompense , 1913. Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street , 1914. Dada (1914-20 ’ S)
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Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, 1914
Dada (1914-20’S) (absorbed by Surrealism in the mid-20s) irrationality, anarchy, cynicism and the rejection of laws of beauty and social organization anti-art that would destroy culture and therefore war Hugo Ball reciting sound poems in the Cabaret Voltaire, 1916
(The signatories of thismanifesto live in France,America, Spain, Germany,Italy, Switzerland,Belgium, etc. but haveno nationality.) DADA EXCITES EVERYTHING DADA knows everything. DADA spits everything out. BUT . . . . . . . . . HAS DADA EVER SPOKEN TO YOU: about Italyabout accordionsabout women's pantsabout the fatherlandabout sardinesabout Fiumeabout Art (you exaggerate my friend)about gentlenessabout D'Annunziowhat a horrorabout heroismabout mustachesabout lewdnessabout sleeping with Verlaineabout the ideal (it's nice)about Massachusettsabout the pastabout odorsabout saladsabout genius, about genius, about geniusabout the eight-hour dayabout the Parma violets NEVER NEVER NEVER DADA doesn't speak. DADA has no fixed idea. DADA doesn't catch flies. THE MINISTRY IS OVERTURNED. BY WHOM? BY DADA Paris January 12, 1921 E. Varèse, Tr. Tzara, Ph. Soupault,Soubeyran, J. Rigaut, G. Ribe-mont-Dessaignes, M. Ray, F. Pi-cabia, B. Péret, C. PausaersR.Hülsenbeeks, J. Evola, M. Ernst,P. Eluard, Suz. Duchamp, M. Du-champ, Crotti, G. Cantarelli, Marg.Buffet, Gab. Buffet, a. BretonBaargeld, Arp., W. C. Arensberg, L. Aragon For all informationwrite "AU SANS PAREIL"37, Avenue Kléber.Tel. PASSY 25-22 --- From Approximate Man and Other Writings,Translated and Edited by Mary Ann Caws(Wayne State University Press)Reprinted in"Teachers & Writers Collaborative"5 Union Square W.New York City 10003 Send us e-mail Subscribe Go Home Go to the most recent RALPH
The Futurist is dead. Of What? Of DADA A Young girl commits suicide. Because of What? DADAThe spirits are telephoned. Who invented it? DADASomeone walks on your feet. It's DADAIf you have serious ideas about life,If you make artistic discoveriesand if all of a sudden your head begins to crackle with laughter,If you find all your ideas useless and ridiculous, know that IT IS DADA BEGINNING TO SPEAK TO YOU cubism constructs a cathedral of artistic liver paste WHAT DOES DADA DO? expressionism poisons artistic sardines WHAT DOES DADA DO? simultaneism is still at its first artistic communion WHAT DOES DADA DO? futurism wants to mount in an artistic lyricism-elevator WHAT DOES DADA DO? unanism embraces allism and fishes with an artistic line WHAT DOES DADA DO? neo-classicism discovers the good deeds of artistic art WHAT DOES DADA DO? paroxysm makes a trust of all artistic cheeses WHAT DOES DADA DO? ultraism recommends the mixture of these seven artistic things WHAT DOES DADA DO? creationism vorticism imagism also propose some artistic recipes WHAT DOES DADA DO? WHAT DOES DADA DO? 50 francs reward to the person who finds the bestway to explain DADA to us Dada passes everything through a new net.Dada is the bitterness which opens its laugh on all that which has been made consecrated forgotten in our language in our brain in our habits.It says to you: There is Humanity and the lovely idiocies which have made it happy to this advanced age DADA HAS ALWAYS EXISTEDTHE HOLY VIRGIN WAS ALREADY A DADAIST DADA IS NEVER RIGHT Citizens, comrades, ladies, gentlemen Beware of forgeries! Imitators of DADA want to present DADA in an artistic form which it has never had CITIZENS, You are presented today in a pornographic form, a vulgar and baroque spirit which is not the PURE IDIOCY claimed by DADA BUT DOGMATISM AND PRETENTIOUS IMBECILITY
Dada (1914-20’S)and Surrealism Andre Breton, 1924 “Surrealism … (is) pure psychic automatism …. Thought in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations … based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of associations heretofore neglected, in the omnipotence of the dream and the disinterested play of thought.” “Surreality (is) the reconciliation of the reality of dreams with the reality of everyday life into a higher Synthesis.” Expressions of the Unconscious: Chance Play Automatisms (Freud, Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious, 1911)
Hans (Jean) Arp Zurich Dada Automatic Drawing 1917-18 Ink and pencil on paper, 16 3/4 x 21 1/4" Collage arranged according to the laws of chance 1916-1917, torn and pasted paper, 19 x 13”
Man Ray Indestructible Object (or Object to be Destroyed) 1923 (replica of 1964) Metronome with cutout photograph of eye on pendulum wood, metal, paint and photograph 8 x 4 x 4” Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin) 1924 Gelatin silver print 11 5/8 x 8 15/16 in.
Francis Picabia - Here, This is Stieglitz/ Faith and Love , 1915
Marcel Duchamp The Fountain 1917 “ready-made”, porcelain plumbing fixture and enamel paint, 24” h.
Marcel Duchamp “ready-made” “ready-made-aided” Bicycle Wheel. New York 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913) Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool, 51 x 25 x 16 1/2" Fountain, 1917 porcelain plumbing fixture and enamel paint, 24” h.
Marcel Duchamp L.H.O.O.Q. Original Version: 1919, Parisreproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisawith added mustache, goatee, and title
Marcel Duchamp “ready-made” “ready-made-aided” Bicycle Wheel. New York 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913) Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool, 51 x 25 x 16 1/2" Bottle Rack, 1913 - 1914
Duchamp, Rrose Selavy, 1921 Rrose Selavy 21
To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, Buenos Aires 1918.Oil, silver leaf, lead wire, and magnifying lens on glass (cracked), mounted between panes of glass in a standing metal frame, 20 1/8 x 16 1/4 x 1 1/2", on painted wood base, 1 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 4 1/2“, Overall 22" high.
Marcel Duchamp The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) Oil paint, varnish, lead foil, lead wire, and dust on two glass plates (cracked), each mounted between two glass panels in a steel and wood frame 1915-23 , 272.5 x 175.8 cm
Duchamp, Boîte-en-Valise, 1941 MD Boîte-en-Valise 35-41
Duchamp, Etant Donnés, 1946-66 MD Etant Donnés 46-66
Durer, 1525, Projections Grid MD Etant Donnés 46-66
Man Ray Portrait of Meret Oppenheim Meret Oppenheim, Objet: dejeuner en fourrure (Luncheon in Fur), 1936, fur covered cup, saucer, and spoon, height 3"
Heartfield, Don’t Be Frightened he is a Vegetarian, 1932
Joan Miró Birth of the World, 1925, o/c, 8 x 6’ Automatism - allowing the hand to wander across the canvas surface without any interference from the conscious mind. The resulting marks will not be random or meaningless, but guided at every point by the functioning of the artist’s unconscious mind, and not by rational thought or artistic training. “…Rather than setting out to paint something, I begin painting and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself… The first stage is free, unconscious …The second stage is carefully calculated.”
Joan Miró Dog Barking at the Moon 1926 oil on canvas 36 x 28” Joan Miro, Dutch Interior I, 1928, oil on canvas, 36 x 28”
Salvador Dali Critical Paranoia The Persistence of Memory 1931 oil on canvas, 9 x 13”
Salvador Dali, Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, 1938
Salvador Dali, Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, 1938
Alexander Calder Untitled, c. 1938wire, sheet metal, string, wooden balls, and paint51 x 84 in. Little Spider, c. 1940sheet metal, wire, and paint43 3/4 x 50 x 55 in.