Dada A

rt and D

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By Lisa Breternitz

Futurist Influence on Dada

The Futurist artists before them had made a big impression on

the Dada artists. The futurists were all about speed, production, innovation-all components of the industrial revolution that was happening at

the time.

With that said they conveyed this step forward in innovation by drawing/painting strong diagonals and quick strokes.

The Dada artists to had used many diagonals in their

work.

Johannes Molzaahn

wood engraving 1919

Dada work was and is still

controversial. It would seem as

though they were the reject artists of

their time and in many ways they

were rejected. Their work often

would not make it into shows towards

the beginning of the movement.

The Dada artists however

rejected the norms of the time period; which still

weighed heavily in classic art or

art that depicted landscapes and

portraits. Th

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cted

or Th

e Ones Who Rejected?

Painted by Lisa Breternitz 2013

Original by C

laude Monet

Lady with Parasol, 1886

Marcel Duchamp

Fountain, 1917

Dada brought about some of the first forms of collage (overlapping images) and photomontage (fitting images together). This allowed for a very scattered combination of artistic style. Often the typography would have a purposefully messy chaotic appearance.

Dada Collage

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Dada artists

were

quite enthusia

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showing th

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pography

is very

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Marcel Duchamp

Filippo Marinetti

One of them is a German artist by the name of Hans

Arp. Arp is well known for his squares. He would cut

out squares with some size and shape variation then

put them in a bag, shook them up and then released

them onto the page.

Whichever way they ended up on the page was the composition he would roll with. He arranged the squares according to chance. This also corresponds with the dada

spontaneous style.

Of course Marcel

Duchamp and the

Urinal or“Fountain”

immediately come to

mind when thinking of

Dada art. There were

many other participants

in the movement

though.

HansArp's Squares

Hannah Hoch is

another Germ

an

Dada artist

who embraced

photomontage and

collage in

much

of her w

ork. Most

of her w

ork did

not have a settin

g

or background

landscape but

focused in on

faces and objects

in particular

organizing th

em

in a fashion not

seen in re

al life.

Hannah

Hoch

A vast majority of the public had an adverse

reaction to Dada art. First glimpse

it had a seemingly random, tasteless,

chaotic style. However once the

thought process behind Dada art

is understood it becomes reasonable. Like

many different contemporary art

movements Dada had philosophical

roots. Dada was a reaction against

anything rational. It was thought that

rationality was what brought on

the war.

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Published by Purdue University

Typfaces used: Rockwell regular, DaDa Antiquerist

AD 206, Hyungjoo A. Kim, April 16, 2015

Programs used: Adobe Photoshop and Adobe