Dada is one of the hardest art movement to define and to introduce. Here's my attempt at doing exactly that. Support us on Patreon: / thecanvas #arthistory #art #dada #dadaism
I agree with you, the banana in the wall WAS NOT DADA, it is dada being coopted by art-capitalism. Everybody is an artist if an artist is the person who can tape a banana to the wall. However, ONLY the artists (and financial yuppies) got the midas touch to turn a 0.15 banana into 100 k of art-investment (certificate, pretty much a bond)
I think Dada was really a product of its time, so much of its influence has permeated subsequent artistic movements and the pop culture of the last century that it's essentially impossible to create a legitimate Dadaist work, especially in our contemporary, technological, media-saturated landscape. On the surface, the performance artist who ate the $100K+ banana piece while it was being exhibited would seem to fit the bill, but even that was little more than a self-serving publicity stunt.
Saw a DaDa exhibit back in the 90's at the SF Legion of Honor. Duchamp's "Fountain" was there. What made this exceptionally hilarious was a small card directly in front of the urinal, "Do not touch".
My German language teacher back in highschool in the Netherlands always talked with consumption (spit)... He hated my ass so bad for being a huge fan of dadaism. I had to be in front of the class so i catched a little bit of spit every time he was in front of me.... the Bastard.... One day i revenged him so bad: He passed my desk and his pen dropped out of his pocket. He didn't notice, so i picked up the pen. "Entschuldigung, Sie haben etwas verloren". He turned and got right up to my face: "WASSSSSS?!?!?!?!".... My answer: "Der Krieg, zwei mahl!" and put the pen in his chestpocket.... That was the end of my german classes that year....
I really liked the part about chance and the subsequent thoughts on lying. It's fascinating how such (in principle) simple ideas can challenge the notion of art, forcing fellow artists to reconsider their entire craft.
Sums up late Bob Dylan to a tee. "The box wrote it", he would say about a song, meaning he had a box full of phrases he's collected from newspapers and other sources and just stuck them together to make his lyrics. Which is also a lie, although hard to prove. 'ModBob', as fans call this period, danced on the edge of art and fraud, daring you to tell the difference.
My parents nicknamed me "dada" when i was little and still call me it sometimes, and they would tell me about the artistic side to this name. I didn't give it much thought before but now I'm just so into Dada.
The last point of Dada being about laughing at the absurd made me think of the emergence of the Theatre of the Absurd, a genre of plays that came about at the end of WW2 and combines humor with illogical thinking and existentialism. The most famous play is Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett, which oscillates between laughter and tears but focuses on silence. Just thought it was interesting how both world wars have had impacts on art forms and the expression of hopelessness that leans toward comedy.
As a teenager growing up in zurich our main hangout was the cabaret voltaire, which still is a bar/cafe that hosts art and music and still is a left wing artist's hub...great place :)
You are quickly becoming one of my favourite art channels on youtube. Everything is very informative and well edited. Thank you for doing what you are doing!
So why is it so pathetically worthless. Although I guess if you are trying to push back against social norms it makes sense that you are going to create laughable and pathetic forms of art.
Thank you for drawing our attention to this rather neglected art movement which was seminal to much of the art of the 20th century and which is still very relevant.
I have looked at, I can't say seriously researched, the history of Dada for a couple of decades.. I have never been able to understand the work but I think I understand the reasons that it came about.
Would you ever consider making long videos? Going deep into explanations about certain arts ? Such as an hour or so. That would be very enjoyable But either way I love your videos as I myself do art and learning about some of my idols and different paintings history is very enjoyable. So either way I'll enjoy your videos
Dada basically sounds like shitposters before the internet. War is ongoing, the planet is burning, the elite don't care. May as well embrace the absurd memes.
Great video, as a music fan dada has a lot of similarities with the no wave punk movement, there´s also chance driven music "Indeterminacy" and the last words of the video reminded me of Frank Zappa´s work
Sometimes when I repair electronics I take a look at a PCB or a cathode ray tube an think to myself that those are a form of art. I personally don't like dada art, but I can see the point of the art piece itself not being the art, but the idea of classifying and apreciating it as art being the art itself. Thinking about that make "fountain" make more sense to me... which might be a very not-dada think to do.
Except for names that everybody knows like Banksy and some ancient visits to Dia in my 20s, pretty much all my knowledge of art history is summed up by Crass album inserts and Winston Smith. So channels like this go a long way in making me feel like I'm catching up for lost time. (It's kinda like someone is playing Big A, little a in the back of my head and they're serving free drinks to anyone who shows up.)
DADA: The Movement Arrived With The Powerful Force OF Mass Production On The First World War And Society: Never Before Had Such HUGE Armies Been So MASSIVELY Uniformed, Armed, Trained, Fed With "Iron" (Canned) Rations Or Transported By Huge (And Huge Numbers Of) Railway Trains (Or By Mass Numbers Of Military Land Vehicles Like Cars And Trucks,) To Their Destinations In The Trenches To Be Massively KILLED By The Large Numbers Of Machine Guns And Artillery!-With The ONLY Feature Of This War That Didn't Comply With This Mass-Produced World Is The Human Being In That Uniform Or Of His Human Spirit (Who Only Complied Out Of Love For His Country And The Need To Protect It From The Enemy He Was Told ,-By His Government, -That Would Destroy It!) Instead, That No-Longer-Same Soldier After The War, -Now Lost Of His Arms, His Legs, Half Of His Face, His Vision, -Could Not Comprehend How The Military Leaders (And Those In The Government Above Them In The Rarefied Air Of Their Gold-Lined Ivory Towers,) Who Led Him And Others To Such Pointless Slaughter As For Him To Be NOTHING BUT TO BE COMPELLED To Denounce The System And Its Structure By Depicting It's Richly-Upholstered Leaders Making "Blood Money" By The War And Of Imagery Of Mass-Produced Machines Doing The Mass-Produced Slaughter!-He MIGHT Laugh As A Form Of Recourse (Being Too Small, Too Few, And Too Broken-Up Body And Soul To Move The System,) But By How He Arranges The Images, But The Product As A Tool For Denouncing The System, -And It's Impact To Demand Change More Than A Century Dow The Line, -And It's Inspiration As A Form Of Protest To This Day!
People sometimes get upset about that toilet not being real art, and I wish they'd relax and appreciate it for what it is: funny. A famous work of art is basically just a URINAL. That's so dumb. Which is funny.
We definitely can't prove that chance didn't produce such an alignment on neither of the pictures I mentioned (the second one is even less likely to happen by chance, near impossible). However, I think it's reasonable to not believe Arp's claim, don't you?
@@TheCanvasArtHistory Yes, reasonable. I think your interpretation is appealing. On the other hand, it might be that the arrangements in the collages are representations of chance that do not want to claim themselves as results of probability. We can see here symmetry, golden ratio, arrangements that are for me does not seem to be avant-garde tools. But these symmetries, ratios can be found, not only in art but in nature. And nature is the purest form of chance. I would say Arp wanted to depict chance instead of using it.
Yes, it should be taught so that we realize how important it is to have standards in a society so that low IQ worthless and non beautiful art can be laughed at even more
@@TheCodgod1996Your take is 'low IQ' but valid. I couldn't imagine thinking art had to conform to anything but itself. Your ideas of something beautiful are entirely unique to you yet predictable and no art is 'worthless' if it can be experienced then it was worth that experience again something that can't be measured because we have a beautiful thing called 'individuality'.
10:18 The "Dada is not an art form" quote attributed to Albert Einstein strikes me as extremely Dada. My questions are: did Einstein actually say/write that and B: what did he mean? I have a few Dada books and did some googling, but can't find anything that sheds light on either question. I suppose a true Dadaist wouldn't care one way or the other, but I'd like to believe that Einstein was simpatico with the Dada movement.
Franqoius Rabelais would completely agree about the essential human stress relieving and psychologically elevating laughter - he wisely stated the first moment we were human and BECAME human beings are the first baby infant laughter moments that baptizes us . We’ve lost so much of this mindset and need it more than ever Todd’s nationalism and politics are a debilitating mental neurosis still butchering millions . 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡💀💀💀💀
loved the video, and a lot of your work, but disagree on the final bit: crying is not necessarily a sign of "giving up". just wanna normalize all them stress-relieving tears. 💦
Hi, I disagree, partly. So you say losing hope and becoming cynical, right? Thing is, some of us are natural rebels, contrarians, we refuse to be put in society's little boxes and we don't like art boxes either. I think Dada, to me, is about being myself in a world of copies. :)
A contrarian is just as much defined by the crowd as a member of the crowd is. To speak in your terms: you have taken a copy and tilted it 90° to claim how special you are 'unlike all the others.' And it isn't even that. A quick look at your channel reveals that you seem to be writing gay romance. Wow how revolutionary to write in one of the best selling book genres (romance) (no hate but this isn't exactly unconventional). Who *isn't* oneself? Everyone is unique in a way. You aren't the special one. Everyone tries to make something of their own. Everyone is heavily defined by society and reliant upon it too.
