Dada Final Questions

I really like this project a lot. I am happy with my results, I just wish I had more time to create additional pieces. I really like the abstract nature. I learned a lot about photoshop in this unit, which I enjoy. I am pleased with how they turned out because I had a vision for them, and I think I executed my goals.
This project ties into a lot of the aspects of Dada. Dada utilizes a lot of text, so the text overlay pieces screams Dada. Also, when you first look at the composition it does not seem like art, but it is actually very interesting and pushes the bounds of what art is and can be.

Dada Final

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Dada Studio Experimentation

MoMA & Dada

Dada is an art movement that started during World War II during a time of changing social structure.

Duchamp's readymades are manufactured objects that he said were pieces of art ready to be displayed. He was pressing the question, "what is art?" with his pieces. He was trying to show that anything can be art; if his pieces make you feel something (even confusion) it is therefore a work of art.

http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/009/w500h420/CRI_63009.jpg

Dada artists embraced chance events to make their art, along with accident and improvisation. They used this to protest traditional art making techniques. 

http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/jean-hans-arp-untitled

They said that the value of art was not in the finished work, but in the process of making it and collaborating with others to make new visions together.

They used word play to display the arbitrary nature of words and their meanings.

http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/francis-picabia-mamenez-y-1919-20

Dada Chance Poem

Original Quote: ALL I GOT IS NOTHING BUT A LITTLE BIT OF LOVE
Scrambled Quote: BUT NOTHING GOT LITTLE A LOVE I ALL BIT LOVE