The term is said to have been coined by Marcel Duchamp in about 1914, and his ready-mades can be cited as early examples of the genre. Dada was the first anti-art movement, and subsequently the denunciation of art became commonplace -- almost de rig Continue Reading...
Marcel Duchamp took a urinal, called it "Fountain," put it in an art show and then defended his action on the grounds that as he was an artist and he said the urinal was art, then it was. This is just the sort of thing that has given modern art a b Continue Reading...
"This means that there will be as many different forms of postmodernism as there were high modernisms in place, since the former are at least initially specific and local reactions against those models." One of the key transitional moments from mod Continue Reading...
Age of Extremes The Rise of the Revolutionary Arts The chapter under review is set in the context of the troubled times that Eric Hobsbawm describes in his book "The Age of Extremities" -- a time which saw two world wars, the greatest economic depr Continue Reading...
Modernism in art triumphed from the 19th century onward and in the early 20th century virtually changed the way art came to be perceived. From the Abstractionists to the Cubists to the Surrealists to the followers of Dada, the modernists continually Continue Reading...
However, rather than to minimize the importance of the objects, the work of these artists asked their viewers to marvel at the complexity of the objects themselves. The viewer takes these objects for granted everyday, not considering them the true a Continue Reading...
eye of the beholder: Reaction to Duchamp's "The Creative Act" According to Marcel Duchamp's essay "The Creative Act," because of the mysterious nature of the creative process to outsiders, the act of creation is much-misunderstood. The work of an a Continue Reading...
Dada or Dadism is a form of art that was considered very controversial when it was created due to the political and cultural statements that it made. Dadism was a protest of the violence of human nature specifically war and its atrocities. Personally Continue Reading...
Dadaism in the Modern World The Danger of Definitions: Dadaism and its Modern Manifestations Though there have been countless movements and representations of rejections of convention in the history of modern art in many cases these standards were Continue Reading...
In essence the Cubists were not only concerned with the development of new artistic techniques, but their experimentation was also concerned with the search for a new and more dynamic perception of reality. As one commentator notes; "The Cubists sou Continue Reading...
Dadaism During WWI, two artists, the German Hugo Ball and his future wife, Emmy Hennings, emigrated from Munich, Germany, to Zurich, Switzerland. Here, they opened Cabaret Voltaire in February 1916, in Spiegelgasse, 1, in Zurich. Other immigrant art Continue Reading...
Ernst Described as "one of the leading surrealists" by the world renowned Tate gallery in London, which houses much of his work, Max Ernst remains one of the world's most important and influential artists. He and his colleagues founded one of moder Continue Reading...
dialogue between theory and praxis has changed since the 60s. Dialogue between Theory and Praxis since the 1960s Jeff Koons is among the most controversial and intriguing artists to have emerged in the past decade. Like Marcel Duchamp and Andy War Continue Reading...
On the contrary, if I had been able to be a clergyman or an art dealer, then perhaps I should not have been fit for drawing and painting, and I should neither have resigned nor accepted my dismissal as such. I cannot stop drawing because I really ha Continue Reading...
But the cool tone of the images in Warhol's works is one reason why a viewer might be tempted to read a kind of backhanded affection for advertising and consumption in Warhol's series, as well as satirical parody. What Hughes calls this affectlessn Continue Reading...
Improvisation No. 28," painted by Wassily Kandinsky in 1912, an example of German Expressionism. Kandinsky used oil and painted on canvas. The size of the canvas is 43 7/8 x 63 7/8 inches. Kandinsky was born and raised in Russia. He also lived in Ge Continue Reading...
Today's consumers act more en masse rather than as individuals, and so, marketing must show them why the "must" have the newest trendy items, or why they have to continue to need those items. Consumers still have personal choices, but they tend to s Continue Reading...
If just about anyone but the poorest people in America can afford what once were considered luxuries, what is there left to aspire to or hope for? The author's concept of wealth states that people acquire desirable objects to illustrate their superi Continue Reading...
