6C Week 7 Images *

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Hugo Ball, Karawane, Cabaret Voltaire, 1915

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Zurich Dada; opens in 1916; named after philosopher in Enlightenment; for liberty, free thought, and democracy; sound poems=no language can justify horror of war, corrupted language; performances=confusing, only response to war; Dada movement starts in 1916; found Cabaret Voltaire with Emmy Henning; critical of war/bourgeoisie/nationalism; believe WWI was logical output of modernization

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International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920

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Berlin Dad; more political; arrested for stuffed pig in Prussian uniform hanging=Prussian arc angel; exhibition of Dad art; war is over in 1918; Weimar republic=parliamentary republic 1919-1930; communists seized power; hire Freikorps=free agents, kill leftists, future Nazis

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George Grosz, Victim of Society, or Remember Uncle August, the Unhappy Inventor, 1919

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Dada; portrait; collage; materials from magazines/ads/mass culture; resist urge to be normal; make something strange/shocking; synthesis; putting together bodies with machines=result of war; after WWI; call attention to people who were dismembered during war

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Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the First Weimar Beer-Belly Epoch, 1919-20

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Dada and anti Dada; collage; associated with Weimar and Dada; more political than cubism; at 1st International Dada Fair; Berlin Dada; made with newspaper=materials from mass culture; critic of people like Kaiser=militarism is bad news

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Giorgio De Chirico, The Child's Brain, 1914

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surrealism; Breton buys in 1920s; closed eyes/closed books/strange arch=what psyche is doing; painting of internal; no narrative; mystery of painting is like a dream

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Hans (Jean) Arp, Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1916-17

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Dada; chance; take away premeditation; not going to rely on reasoning by on chance

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George Grosz, Republican Automatons, 1920

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Dada; people look like machines=prosthetics=what happened to veterans; mindless=praising country with no hands; all body parts are fake

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French War Wounded (from World War I), 1920

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Dada wants to be confusing and create chaos; WWI=people in trenches, into line of fire, gain a couple feet, do it over and over, lots of people killed. bloodbath; Dadaist reject that use of language/logic; no reason; doing opposite of their logic; use a language that doesn’t mean anything because language can’t describe what’s happening; not going to rely of reasoning but on chance; irrationality can make meaning in a culture that’s insane based on reason and rationality=dark side of progress; worry WWI is ultimate outcome of logic

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John Heartfield, Hurrah! Die Butter ist alle! [Hurrah! The butter's all gone!], published in AIZ, 1935

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published in communist magazine; eating iron=makes people stronger; Nazi wallpaper; parody of propaganda; undermines Nazi/Hitler propaganda

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Rene Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933

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canvas of a tripod; painting within painting; blends with background=human condition; how conditions of representation in psyche; representation of reality; false reality;

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Andre Masson, Yves Tanguy, unidentified artist, Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse), 1924

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surrealism; look at different ways to access unconscious= exquisite corpse; somewhat by chance; rationale is restrictive; more active approach to unconscious

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Max Ernst, The Horde, 1927

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Surrealism; frottage=rubbing; dropped string on canvas=chance; engaging shape; suggest something uncanny=scary familiar

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André Masson, Battle of the Fish, 1927

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surrealism; flung sand and paint; adds drawing; balance; different materials=chaos; room for interpretation; automatic drawing

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Joan Miró, The Birth of the World, 1925

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Surrealism; black thing=figure laying down; red dot=sperm; black triangle=figure; suggestive; not clear; organic shapes; biomorphic=vaguely suggestive of biology, organic; evoke unconscious response

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Salvador Dali, Paranoiac Face, 1935

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Surrealism; unconscious says it looks like woman's face; originally from postcard

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Postcard, inspiration for Dali's Paranoiac Face, n.d.

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inspired Dali's painting

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Surrealist Group Portrait, 1929

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reproduced Magritte; eyes closed=dreaming; right arm missing; originally Dadaist in Paris; Breton became leader of surrealism=do something more productive than Dada; look at different ways to access unconscious=automatic drawing, exquisite corpse; somewhat by chance; take away premeditation; rationale is restrictive; superego represses our own desires; revolutionary to tap into desires; more active approach to unconscious

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Rene Magritte, Je ne vois pas _____ dans la foret [I don't see the _____ hidden in the Forest],
used in the center of the Surrealists' group portrait, 1929

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Breton bought; started to fade=conserves; keeps disappearing 3x; uncanny; don't even see on canvas anymore forest=min and psyche; doesn't know what he desires

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Merit Openheim, Fur-lined Tea Cup (Luncheon in Fur), 1936

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Surrealist; ew; interested in objects; wet fur=sexual; having fun with it; woman