Monday, 2 March 2015

Dadaism

A European artistic movement during the certain 20th-century. Writers and painters from France, Germany, and Switzerland who were strongly against World War I, and the conservativism of traditional thought. This bold and anti-art movement is a reflection of what was happening in the world through the eyes of these artists.
Dada artists rejected mass media and propaganda, the first exhibition of Dada was in 1917 however by 1919 most of the artists had moved to other countries taking their art with them.




1920, The International Dada fair was shocking for exposing the slander against the German military through the works of art. following this fair the Dada scene was quite until Marcel Duchamp created or found a porcelain urinal, which was signed "R.Mutt" and titled Fountain. This original piece was rejected by the committee and instead was photographed and displayed at Alfred Stieglitz's studio. The idea behind this art piece is specific, 'Art is something you piss on'.


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