University of Central Florida-Art History2-Spring2014-2/5/14 by AnnotatedNotes Lyrics
Dada->Dada movement began after World War 1
->Movement emerged from Artists’ reaction to the horrors of World War 1.
-> Began independently in New York and Zurich, Switzerland.
->Also emerged in Paris,France|Berlin+Cologne,German.y
->Unlocked new avenues for creative invention.
->Dada mindset, more than style.
->Name came from them sticking knife into French-German dictionary, Dada is French for “a child’s hobby horse” this satisfied their desire for a name that was nonsensical.
->Pessimism and disgust surfaced from their disdain for convention and tradition.
->Underlying humor and whimsy lays in their artwork.
->The Dada’s emphasis on the spontaneous and intuitive paralleled the views of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung(Doctor and psychiatrist who studied the unconscious mind).
->Dada artist believed art was powerful practical mean of self-revelation and catharsis.
->Images arising out of subconscious mind had truth of their own.Marcel Duchamp, The Bicycle Wheel, 1913
Duchamp,Fountain,1917->Most influential Dadaist.
->Frenchman, became central artist of New York Dada, also active in Paris.
->Exhibited these ready made sculptures in 1913.
->Fountain- Conferred the status of art on a urinal and forced people to see the object in a new light.
->Wanted to force viewers to see art in a new light. Give you ideas.Jean (Hans) Arp, Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1916-1917.
Jean Arp, Evocation of a human form,1950->Prominent Zurich Dada based Artist.
-> Pioneered Use of chance in composing his images.
->Collage-In this piece he haphazardly dropped roughly shaped squares into a sheet of paper on floor, then glued them on.
->Renunciation of artistic control+reliance on chance, when creating his compositions reinforced the anarchy subversiveness inherent in Dada.Kurt Schwitters,Merz 19,1920->German-Berlin artist, produced Dada-influenced works.
->Made photomontages, that featured political commentary.
->Merz 19- part of a series of collages made from cast-off junk of modern society that he scavenged from trash bins and nailed together.
->Like Duchamp’s readymades his collages acquired new meanings through new uses and locations.
->Turning trash into the status of high art, made his artwork fit within the parameters of the Dada program.Man Ray,Cadeau(Gift),1921
Man Ray, Ingres Violin, 1924->American artist, close associate of Duchamp in the 1920’s.
->Real Name- Emmanuel Radnitzky.
->Trained as an architectural draftsman and engineer, but earned living as graphic designer and portrait photographer.
->Developed innovated photographic technique that relied on chance, he would place objects on photographic paper, then expose the paper to light, he called these photographs-Rayographs.
->Keen interest in mass-produced objects and technology.
->Wanted to explore human perception of exterior world.
->Wanted to dislocate ordinary things from their everyday settings to surprise his viewers into new awareness.
->Displacement of found objects can be see in his piece titled Cadeau(Gift).Surrealism->Dada movement lasted for a short time.
->Andre Breton founder of the Surrealist movement.
->1924|France, First Surrealist Manifesto, Is published.
->Most artist associated with Dada joined the Surrealism movement.
->Surrealists adopted Dadaists improvisational techniques.
->Sought to explore inner world of psyche, realm of fantasy and the unconscious.
->Inspired by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung Surrealists had special interest in the nature of dreams.
->Naturalistic Surrealism-recognizable scenes transformed into a dream or nightmare image (Salvador Dali).
->Biomorphic Surrealism-used automatism, the creation of art without conscious control, this produced largely abstract compositions(Joan Miro).Giorgio De Chirico, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street,1914->Italian Painter.
->Widely recognized precursor of Surrealism.
->In category by himself part of metaphysical painting, only one in category we are looking at.Max Ernst, Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924->One of first Surrealist, joined Breton.
->German artist, moved to Paris where he painted-Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale.
->Used frottage.Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931->Spanish painter.
->Introduced theory to Dadaism .
->Mastered all traditions of representation.
->Meets Picasso in Paris and fully converts to Surrealism.
->Paranoiac-critical method-Rendering ever detail with precise control, striving to make the dream worlds of his paintings convincingly real, attempt to make the irrational concrete.
->Used Paranoiac-critical method in-The Persistence of Memory.Joan Miro, Painting,1933->Spanish painter, known as a Surrealist.
->Master of automatism- Creating art while switching back and forth between unconscious and conscious image making.
->Hallucinations brought on by hunger inspired-Painting.
->Used automatism-then reworked the lines, arranged them according to his imagination, for the-Painting.Joseph Cornell, Untitled, c 1941
Cornell, Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery, 1941Louise Nevelson, Black Wall, 1964
Nevelson, Tropical Garden II, 1957-1959->Russian-born.
->1940(She was 40) turned to sculpture.
->Combined power of Dada and Surrealist found objects to express her personal sense of life’s underlying significance.
->Creations Built by stacking crates filled with things she found in demolitions, then painted one hue to take away identity of combined objects.
->Artwork reminiscent of Schwitters Merz constructions.
->Before Nevelson there was no important woman sculptors in the 20th century.Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait, ca 1940->Mexican Artist.
->Most autobiographical artist connected with Surrealism.
->Infused her culture into her art.
->Movement emerged from Artists’ reaction to the horrors of World War 1.
-> Began independently in New York and Zurich, Switzerland.
->Also emerged in Paris,France|Berlin+Cologne,German.y
->Unlocked new avenues for creative invention.
->Dada mindset, more than style.
->Name came from them sticking knife into French-German dictionary, Dada is French for “a child’s hobby horse” this satisfied their desire for a name that was nonsensical.
->Pessimism and disgust surfaced from their disdain for convention and tradition.
->Underlying humor and whimsy lays in their artwork.
->The Dada’s emphasis on the spontaneous and intuitive paralleled the views of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung(Doctor and psychiatrist who studied the unconscious mind).
->Dada artist believed art was powerful practical mean of self-revelation and catharsis.
->Images arising out of subconscious mind had truth of their own.Marcel Duchamp, The Bicycle Wheel, 1913
Duchamp,Fountain,1917->Most influential Dadaist.
->Frenchman, became central artist of New York Dada, also active in Paris.
->Exhibited these ready made sculptures in 1913.
->Fountain- Conferred the status of art on a urinal and forced people to see the object in a new light.
->Wanted to force viewers to see art in a new light. Give you ideas.Jean (Hans) Arp, Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1916-1917.
Jean Arp, Evocation of a human form,1950->Prominent Zurich Dada based Artist.
-> Pioneered Use of chance in composing his images.
->Collage-In this piece he haphazardly dropped roughly shaped squares into a sheet of paper on floor, then glued them on.
->Renunciation of artistic control+reliance on chance, when creating his compositions reinforced the anarchy subversiveness inherent in Dada.Kurt Schwitters,Merz 19,1920->German-Berlin artist, produced Dada-influenced works.
->Made photomontages, that featured political commentary.
->Merz 19- part of a series of collages made from cast-off junk of modern society that he scavenged from trash bins and nailed together.
->Like Duchamp’s readymades his collages acquired new meanings through new uses and locations.
->Turning trash into the status of high art, made his artwork fit within the parameters of the Dada program.Man Ray,Cadeau(Gift),1921
Man Ray, Ingres Violin, 1924->American artist, close associate of Duchamp in the 1920’s.
->Real Name- Emmanuel Radnitzky.
->Trained as an architectural draftsman and engineer, but earned living as graphic designer and portrait photographer.
->Developed innovated photographic technique that relied on chance, he would place objects on photographic paper, then expose the paper to light, he called these photographs-Rayographs.
->Keen interest in mass-produced objects and technology.
->Wanted to explore human perception of exterior world.
->Wanted to dislocate ordinary things from their everyday settings to surprise his viewers into new awareness.
->Displacement of found objects can be see in his piece titled Cadeau(Gift).Surrealism->Dada movement lasted for a short time.
->Andre Breton founder of the Surrealist movement.
->1924|France, First Surrealist Manifesto, Is published.
->Most artist associated with Dada joined the Surrealism movement.
->Surrealists adopted Dadaists improvisational techniques.
->Sought to explore inner world of psyche, realm of fantasy and the unconscious.
->Inspired by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung Surrealists had special interest in the nature of dreams.
->Naturalistic Surrealism-recognizable scenes transformed into a dream or nightmare image (Salvador Dali).
->Biomorphic Surrealism-used automatism, the creation of art without conscious control, this produced largely abstract compositions(Joan Miro).Giorgio De Chirico, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street,1914->Italian Painter.
->Widely recognized precursor of Surrealism.
->In category by himself part of metaphysical painting, only one in category we are looking at.Max Ernst, Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924->One of first Surrealist, joined Breton.
->German artist, moved to Paris where he painted-Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale.
->Used frottage.Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931->Spanish painter.
->Introduced theory to Dadaism .
->Mastered all traditions of representation.
->Meets Picasso in Paris and fully converts to Surrealism.
->Paranoiac-critical method-Rendering ever detail with precise control, striving to make the dream worlds of his paintings convincingly real, attempt to make the irrational concrete.
->Used Paranoiac-critical method in-The Persistence of Memory.Joan Miro, Painting,1933->Spanish painter, known as a Surrealist.
->Master of automatism- Creating art while switching back and forth between unconscious and conscious image making.
->Hallucinations brought on by hunger inspired-Painting.
->Used automatism-then reworked the lines, arranged them according to his imagination, for the-Painting.Joseph Cornell, Untitled, c 1941
Cornell, Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery, 1941Louise Nevelson, Black Wall, 1964
Nevelson, Tropical Garden II, 1957-1959->Russian-born.
->1940(She was 40) turned to sculpture.
->Combined power of Dada and Surrealist found objects to express her personal sense of life’s underlying significance.
->Creations Built by stacking crates filled with things she found in demolitions, then painted one hue to take away identity of combined objects.
->Artwork reminiscent of Schwitters Merz constructions.
->Before Nevelson there was no important woman sculptors in the 20th century.Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait, ca 1940->Mexican Artist.
->Most autobiographical artist connected with Surrealism.
->Infused her culture into her art.