History DADA Images by Sana Das

Guernica

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Represents chaos of war after Guernica, Spain was bombed by Hitler's planes

Created April-June 1937 by Pablo Picasso

Portrait of Dora Maar

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Oil on canvas painting which depicts Picasso's lover, Dora Maar, seated on a chair. It captures their emotional love in a world of war.

Created 1937 by Pablo Picasso

The Women of Algiers by Pablo Picasso, 1955

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The women's nudity in Picasso's imagery connotes for Djebar an unveiling, a “rebirth to their own bodies,” and a reinstatement of female identity and intimacy that Delacroix stilled when he violated their most sacred space

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso, 1907

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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon depicts five nude women in a brothel in Barcelona. The piece is rendered in muted, paneled block colors. All the figures stand to confront the viewer, with slightly disconcerting facial expressions. Their bodies are angular and disjointed, standing as if they are posing for the viewer. Below them sits a pile of fruit posed for a still life.

Guitar by Pablo Picasso, 1913

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The piece is a collage combined with drawn elements, made up of paper and newspaper clippings, adding varying degrees of depth and texture. It portrays disjointed and asymmetric parts of a guitar, recognizable only by the central shape and circle.

The Weeping Woman

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It was created during the Spanish Civil War when General Franco revolted against the Republican government and part of a series of works in response to the bombing of Guernica. It represents universal suffering, as this woman is the mother of a child who died (the grieving mother in Guernica).

Created in 1936 by Pablo Picasso

Girl before a Mirror by Pablo Picasso, 1932

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This painting is widely known to be Picasso’s masterpiece and the interpretation of the girl and her beloved. The girl in this painting is depicted by Pablo’s wife.

Ma Jolie by Pablo Picasso, 1911

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Ma Jolie means My pretty girl. This was a musical number performed at a musical hall which the artist got inspired to paint it too.

Three Musicians

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Portrays three figures in a decorative Cubism style which represents Pablo Picasso himself and two of his poet friends. They are artists and musicians with their paint brush or pen.

Created in 1921 by Pablo Picasso

Portrait of Sylvette David

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Portrait of a timid woman who did not talk very much but had astounding beauty. Known as the woman with a ponytail. It is very likely that Picasso tried to seduce this 19-year old girl.

Created in 1954 by Pablo Picasso

Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1913

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“In 1913, I had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn,” said Marcel Duchamp about his famous work Bicycle Wheel. Bicycle Wheel is the first of Duchamp’s readymade objects. Readymades were individual objects that Duchamp repositioned or signed and called art.

Man Ray, Ingres’s Violin, 1924

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By painting f-holes of a stringed instrument onto the photographic print of his nude model Kiki de Montparnasse and rephotographing the print, Man Ray altered what was originally a classical nude. The female body was now transformed into a musical instrument.

Raoul Hausmann, Mechanical Head (The Spirit of our Time), 1920

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The manikin head made from a solid wooden block is a reversal of Hegel’s assertion that “everything is mind.” For Hausmann, man is empty-headed “with no more capabilities than that which chance has glued to the outside of his skull.” By raising these topics, Hausmann wanted to compose an image that would shatter the mainstream Western conventions that the head is the seat of reason.

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919

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The piece, which is made up of cuttings from newspapers and magazines, is flooded with topical images that have been merged together to show Höch’s view on Germany, dadaism, and the role of women in both contexts. Many male Dadaists had great ideas about gender equity and how to go about it but there was a dissonance between the theories and their actions. Out of frustration, Hannah Höch used her work to showcase her thoughts on the matter.

Jean Arp, Shirt Front and Fork (1922)

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This work has a monochrome graphic with soft lines and simplistic forms. It represents the artists shift in style from a more complex abstraction.

Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q. (1919)

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It was created from an inexpensive postcard of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503-06) which Duchamp then drew a waxed mustache and goatee onto. The piece features elements of satire, rejecting the aesthetic of ‘high art’. The title of the piece is also satirical, as L.H.O.O.Q. when said in French sounds like ‘Elle a chaud au cul’, translating to ‘she’s hot in the butt’ and connoting an underlying sexuality to the piece.

Francis Picabia, Optophone I (1922)

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This artwork comments on industrial equipment and acceleration of technology. Optophone is a device thst uses sonification to scan texts and images to help the blind identify letters on a page. The woman in the center represents what is seen through the optophone and questions how humans interprets art.

Kurt Schwitters, Construction For Noble Ladies (1919)

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This assemblage piece also exemplifies the ‘found object’ style of sculpture, as it is constructed of a variety of broken and disjointed materials: a funnel, a metal toy train, broken wheels, and other scrap objects. It also includes a horizontal portrait of a noble lady, from which the piece gets its title. The entire piece has an elegant asymmetry, showing that even scrap objects can create a masterpiece.

Rayograph by Man Ray, 1922

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These pieces were made using photographic paper, on which Ray placed a series of objects and then exposed them to light. The paper would then darken where an object was not placed, creating the effect of a negative-light shadow. These pieces exemplified the notion of Dada, as they often represented mundane or random objects that did not seem connected.

Raoul Hausmann, The Art Critic (1919-20)

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The piece is a photo collage made up of magazine and newspaper photoes, including his own art. It represents how critics tumble together knowledge of vacuous facts and do not truly understand the meaning of art.

White jazz

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Ulysses by James Joyce

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Stream of Conciousness example

Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk

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It is the symbolic thunderclap of the fall Adam and Eve but is not considered a real word.

Palo Alto Bauhaus

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