Dada Destructionists

why the dada destructionists? Brief explaination- We are a group of art students collaborating to make art (duh...) for one of our many projects this semester. The work we produce will reference the dada movement of art history (1916-22). Sometimes referred to as Anti-Art. Our interest lies within the collage aspects of Dada which we will use this in our work, destroying (hence destructionists) and fusing imagery. Here you will be able to keep up with our progress Jo

Monday, 28 March 2011

Raymond Hains

Born 1926

Raymond Hains was a french artist and abstract photographer who was inspired by surrealism and used mirrors or deformed glass as a way of expressing his surrealist interests in his work.

In 1950 he invented the concept of the 'ultra lettré' and devoted himself to to his lettres éclalées (shattered letters) in this year he also started using collage and found, torn posters from street advertisements to create 'ultra lettrist psychogeographical hypergraphics' with Jacques Villeglé.

The influence of neo dadaism continued to inform his work from this point.

He joined the nouveau realists in 1960 but distanced himself from them only three years later.

Some work:

http://artintelligence.net/review/?p=497

Nie

1 comment:

Alice28 March 2011 at 14:57
I like Raymond Hains work its very appropriate for us ans our work
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment