DADA Movement

• purpose: to protest the senseless violence

of World War I

• art did not depend in any way on

established rules or on craftsmanship; the
only law was that of chance, and the only
reality that of imagination
 Andre Breton
• Manifeste du Surrealisme
• rational thought was repressive to the
powers of creativity and imagination and
thus inimical to artistic expression
• contact with the subconscious mind could
produce poetic truth
SURREALISM
 SURREALISM
• coined by Guillame Apollinaire

• means “above reality”

• influenced by the psychoanalytical work of

Freud
 SURREALISM
• an antiaesthetic movement which began
as a revolt against the control exercised
by rationality over accepted modes of
communication
• stresses the subconscious or non-rational
significance of imagery arrived at by
automatism
• limited in scope and application only by
the human capacity for self-expression
 1925, Paris
• the first group exhibition of surrealists
– Andre Breton
– Giorgio Chirico these painters
– Max Ernst developed a
– Andre masson dreamlike or
– Joan Miro hallucinatory
– Pablo Picasso imagery that was
– Man Ray all the more
– Rene Magnitte startling for its
highly realistic
rendering
SAMPLE
ARTWORKS OF
REPRESENTATIVE
SURREALISTS
Automatic Drawing
The
Bride
Strippe
d Bare
by Her
Bachelo
rs, Even
The Elephant Celebes
The Red Tower
Eine kleine
THIS IS NOT A PIPE.
HARLEQUIN’
S
CARNIVAL
“beautif
ul as the chance
encounter
of a sewing
machine…
and an
umbrella…

on a dissecting
table."
 Dada versus Surrealism

Surrealism was truly international, and

exponents of its revolutionary principles
Inshared
its negative attitudefaith
an unshakable toward
in theliterary and
power of
However,
artistis surrealism
tradition, and marked
in its a stage to the
opposition
imagination to revitalize poetry and art and to
beyond the nihilism that had inevitably
heritage offor
compensate thethe
Western culture,
sociopolitical and surrealism
brought Dada to self-destruction
religious forcesresembled
superficially that they found
Dada.so oppressive
and stultifying in contemporary society