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You're Dadaism!

Do you know what the "dada" stand for in
dadaism? Nothing - it's gibberish nonsense
meant to imitate something a baby might say,
but it describes perfectly the meaning of
dadaism. Dadaists, who worked mainly in the
early 1900's, protested the traditional way of
thinking and thought that people are absolutely
incapable of saying anything meaningful to one
another, which is why all kind of art is
basically as stupid of meaningless as anything
else. To demonstrate this, they made confusing
works of art which seemed to mock people's idea
of art using the the so-called
"ready-made" technique, which means
taking one or two random objects (like a
spatula and a toilet seat. Usually they used
things they'd just found somewhere), wrote
their signatures in them and voila - a new
fantastic piece of art was finished. Dadaists
aimed to provoke - it was said that dadaist
playwrights considered their plays a success if
the audience bursted out furiously before the
show was over. Go figure.

Famous Dadaists: Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp

Picture: The Urinal-Fountain by Marcel Duchamp -
Marcel Duchamp painted some fantastic
paintings, too, but he is more known of his
delibarately confusing and very humorous
ready-made "sculptures" which
celebrate the mockery dadaism was all about.
Duchamp took everyday items, such as this
glorious urinal here, finished them with his
own signature, and then gave them names which
nothing to do with the objects' original
functions. Slightly confusing, yet absolutely
brilliant.


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