ok so i picked this topic just based on the fact that it sounds different and would be an interesting read. Dadaism is a post world war one movement. Dadaism began in Zurich and moved west. It was a movement against barbaric warfare and the artist were completely irrational and madde you think with their art. In a way it represented the negative side of war. All the veterans that came home disfigured and crippled were represented in some of their art. To me this kind of art or the movement was a slap in the face to any country and its soldiers. How unpatriotic can you get? To be ungrateful for those men and women who risked their lives for your freedom so you could have your little movement makes me a little mad. i know that everyone has the right to feel the way they feel and I am not saying war is a good thing but it is necessary at times. i also know that there is a downside to war with the bloodshed and horrible things that happen to the soldiers but why not support the heros. maybe dadaism is supposed to make you think about these kinds of things and therfore it is doing a great job making me think right now. i know i have a limited knowledge of the subject but from what i can tell i dont think it was the best movement myself. i can see how it made a lot of people mad. There only rule was dont follow the rules. they were anti art themselves and only when dadism was becoming more "accepted" did it die off. i would like to read more about dadaism and see how it influenced other movements as well.
Yeah, I suppose dadaism does have a sarcastic edge to it. But I think it's supposed to remind us of what happened to people like soldiers. Sometimes it seems like people forget about the casualties until the numbers start piling up. Maybe dadaism is just trying to help us remember without the actual casualties.
ReplyDeleteI'm not entirely sure dadaism is my favorite of the 'isms' either. The images do make you think though. I have no idea what they were trying to communicate with their artwork becuase I didn't really look them up, but they are interesting.
ReplyDeleteI love Dada and so I have to defend it. Dada was on the side of the soldiers, and after the war, the movement was made up of many soldiers. They were dissatisfied with the people who sent those men out to die without giving them a chance to succeed, and the art which represented those elite groups of people. In fact, one of the problems post-war was that the veterans were being refused compensation and were treated like second-class citizens. They were broken men who were thrown away because they were no longer useful to the state, and so Dadaism was a movement that reacted against that treatment. The whole world felt betrayed by its leaders, by the people who claimed to have the knowledge and the power to create peace. Most of the modernist movements were reacting against the same sense of betrayal. It's really a fascinating point of time that changed our society forever, it's worth doing some more research on, I think.
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