The war in 1914-1918 completely destroyed the old structure of society and there was a vast need to industrialise and expand economically. Artists no longer made work for the Church or the rich only and scientific discoveries questioned the old truths about nature and perception.
By the 19th century, the world faced a rapid expansion in technology with the expansion of the media, which made communication easier and photography being invented amongst other things. By the 20th century, Photography was developed and it freezed every moment and movement in a single second and recorded the exact detail of it. For the painters in that era, this was a shock, photography had overtaken painting in the sense of reality. They thus searched and looked not just to record reality but to express themselves through art. They had been freed from being authentic. The idea of portraying a “real thing” became less important thus modernising very rapidly and developing into what we call the “Dada” movement. …show more content…
This movement was a reaction by artists to what they saw as the horror and folly of the war. When they returned to Germany, they were desperate to find a way pf conveying the madness of the age. They made the people rethink about what was art and its purpose. They challenged the audience to destroy the traditional values in art and to create a new art to replace the old. Three main ideas stand out from this movement: First, the choice of the object itself is a creative act; second, by cancelling the “useful” function of the object it becomes art; and third, the presentation and addition of a title to the object gives it a “new thought”, a new
By the 19th century, the world faced a rapid expansion in technology with the expansion of the media, which made communication easier and photography being invented amongst other things. By the 20th century, Photography was developed and it freezed every moment and movement in a single second and recorded the exact detail of it. For the painters in that era, this was a shock, photography had overtaken painting in the sense of reality. They thus searched and looked not just to record reality but to express themselves through art. They had been freed from being authentic. The idea of portraying a “real thing” became less important thus modernising very rapidly and developing into what we call the “Dada” movement. …show more content…
This movement was a reaction by artists to what they saw as the horror and folly of the war. When they returned to Germany, they were desperate to find a way pf conveying the madness of the age. They made the people rethink about what was art and its purpose. They challenged the audience to destroy the traditional values in art and to create a new art to replace the old. Three main ideas stand out from this movement: First, the choice of the object itself is a creative act; second, by cancelling the “useful” function of the object it becomes art; and third, the presentation and addition of a title to the object gives it a “new thought”, a new