Dada or Dadaism was a movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I. The movement mostly involved visual arts, theatre, graphic design, and literature. Initially it was conceived as an anti-war art movement, and much of the early Dada work takes the form of protest art. It was created as a backlash to the traditional views of culture literature and art. Art that was created by the Dadaist was to be interpreted freely by the viewer. Dada started off with a large negative response and by that altered 20th century art.
The art that is recommended most ideal for the clients of the History of Graphic Design Museum are as followed. Four pieces by Marcel Duchamp, the Mona Lisa L.H.O.O.Q, Fountain, The Large Glass, and the Bicycle Wheel. These art pieces were chosen because out of all of his works those four are the four of the most controversial of his pieces and some of the most controversial pieces of the whole dada movement because of what they sanded for, readymade art (art made of already made objects i.e. The Fountain) and making fun of famous art pieces before it like the Mona Lisa. Another artist that will be in the museum is Max Ernst, four of his works will also be exhibited in the museum. The Elephant Celebes, Ubu Imperator, Little Machine, and Europe after the Rain 2. Max Ernst was also a very controversial artist. Pushing the envelope when it came to what he was painting while still preserving the capacity to disturb as the viewer observes its initial elements. Hannah Höch, another artist who created the piece ‘‘Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany’’She studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin under the guidance of Harold Bergen. She studied glass design and graphic art. The last artist that will be featured in the museum is Jean Arp / Hans Arp. He was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. Arp was a founding member of the Dada movement in Zürich in 1916. In 1920, as Hans Arp, along with Max Ernst, and the social activist Alfred Grünwald, he set up the Cologne Dada group.
Many of the dada artists felt that European art was corrupted. They sought out to fix that by mocking it. Many Dada pieces are very playful and mock other famous works, just like Marcel Duchamp’s portrait of the Mona Lisa with a mustache. Almost all Dada works were set out to inspire a reaction which was the intended goal. The movement was a very short movement witch was essentially over by 1923. Although The Dada movement left a lasting legacy on modern art and society. Without Dadaism it is unlikely that Surrealism and other modern art movements like Nouveau Réalisme, Pop Art, Fluxus and Punk would have occurred.
Mark Sanclimenti
