1900+Art

Dyan Khor

"By 1900 the artist had either to be a critic of the times or to develop art for its own sake" discuss.

 -great depression  -pre war avant garde idea: humans violent/irrational  -increased fascism =decreased rights || Paragraph 1: Dada Art (cause)  -“anti art”  -during WW1 (1916-1922)  -meaningless modern world  -anti-bourgeois  -rejection of society Paragraph 2: Dada art (result)  -Hanna Hoch  (Cut with the Kitchen Knife)  photomontages  -Tristan Tzara (poet)=founder  -helped express the dislike of the situation “critic”   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paragraph 1: Surrealism (cause) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -escape from reality <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (depression, war) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -confusion/uncertainty <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -beyond realistic/material <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -fantasies dreams nightmares <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -logic portrays the illogical <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -disturbing and evocative <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paragraph 2: Surrealism (result) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -Salvador Dali <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Persistence of Memory, Lobster Telephone) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -Art=process and explanation, made “for its own sake” || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">During and after World War I, the artists, and society, desired to find meaning and sense in the chaotic obstructed world they were left in, resulting in creation of the critical Dada and the spontaneous Surrealism movements.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Premise  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Critical   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cultural   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">World War I