Lecture 3: Dada
18:07Week 3: Dada
What I felt about the Dada movement has always been the same: Meaningless. Dadaism, to me, is an anti-art movement where Dada artists create art with no meaning. Just like the famous works from Marcel Duchamp and Rene Margritte, they were created with no meaning in mind. Magritte has once scoffed at art critics who tried to interpret his artworks as these artworks were meant to have no meaning. However, I still like the surrealistic nature behind Magritte's works. Even Jean Arp's "Collage With Squares Arranged by the Laws of Chance" was done as the title suggests, yet the aesthetics that turns out from the final artwork is something we can see even in today's contemporary art.
After attending the lecture, it took me strongly that Dada might not really have no meaning. Instead, in addition to being anti-war, had political affinities with the radical left and was also anti-bourgeois.
Below are some artworks that I like from the movement.
Jean Arp
Torn-and-pasted paper and colored paper on colored paper, 19 1/8 x 13 5/8" (48.5 x 34.6 cm)
René Magritte
Oil on Canvas
René Magritte
Oil on Canvas
Marcel Duchamp
Drawing




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