Billboard Art project

I might have spelt that wrong, but check them out on facebook.

Nie

Placards

I had this idea to rather than display our work just on the wall (stuck and taped on) we could maybe make a few they can be smaller and be displayed like placards

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12921158

I read this and got the idea from this

Alice

Exhibition we should visit!

Possible Damage!
Liga suggested it after our presentation.
Its at INIVA which is the gallery my group visited last semester with intro study and its in shoreditch so not far away!
I think its displaying items which have been thrown during riots!
Its on until 3rd May i think....
but basically i think we should go, I think I will go a week on wednesday, or maybe tomorrow morning, anyone want to join?

Jo

Hannah Hoch

This is "Cut with a Kitchen Knife" the piece that I have talked so much about, I feel it incorporates all our ideas and what we're trying to pursue.

Chapman Brothers

I just want to reiterate on the Chapman Brothers, as we quickly passed over them and I was just thinking for our presentation they are fairly important; especially as a just found out a new piece of information about them.

They made work that was deemed appalling, vulgar and offensive. They also produced work for the White Cube gallery in 2008 that exhibited 13 apparently authenticated watercolours by Adolf Hitler, they added hippie motifs. Jake Chapman described most of the dictator's works as "awful landscapes" which they had "prettified".

George Grosz

He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dadaists. He was friends with the artist John Heartfield, together they wrote a book entitled "Jedermann sein eigner Fussball" (meaning "everyman his own football"). It included two photomontages by the artists themselves.

I put this in because he recalled that his dada art was intended as a protest "against this world of mutual destruction".

"[Dadaists] expressed their rejection of [capitalist society] in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality."

Hans Arp

Jean Arp / Hans Arp

16 September 1886

Jean/Hans Arp was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper.

(When Arp spoke in German he referred to himself as "Hans", and when he spoke in French he referred to himself as "Jean". Many people believe that he was born Hans and later changed his name to Jean, but this is not the case.)

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/explore/work.do?id=595&action=3

In drawing systems we have been doing collage and I really loved this guy's work. Andrew brought up the subject of Dada collage and general collage and their meanings. The way collage either had no meaning or was left to the viewer to interpret. Well this is what I understood anyway. I want to look into this a little more, and really think it's important for us to think about if we want our collage to be interpreted in one way or many.

Nie

Russian Constructivism

Russian Constructivism

A movement that was active from 1913 to the 1940s created by the Russian avant-garde, but quickly spread to the rest of the continent. Constructivist art is committed to complete abstraction with a devotion to modernity, where themes are often geometric, experimental and rarely emotional. Objective forms carrying universal meaning were far more suitable to the movement than subjective or individualistic forms. Constructivist themes are also quite minimal, where the artwork is broken down to its most basic elements. New media was often used in the creation of works, which helped to create a style of art that was orderly. An art of order was desirable at the time because it was just after World War 1 that the movement arose, which suggested a need for understanding, unity and peace. Famous artists of the Constructivist movement include Vladimir Tatlin, Kasimir Malevich, Alexandra Exter, Robert Adams, and El Lissitzky.

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Photomontage

Photomontage

The photomontage became the technique most associated with Berlin Dada, used extensively by Hausmann, Höch, Heartfield, Baader and Grosz, and would prove a crucial influence on Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitsky and Russian Constructivism. It should also be pointed out that Grosz, Heartfield & Baader all laid claim to having invented the technique in later memoirs, although no works have surfaced to justify these claims.

At the same time, Hausmann started to experiment with sound poems he called "phonemes", and poster poems originally created by the chance lining up of letters by a printer without Hausmann's direct intervention. Later poems used words were reversed, chopped up and strung out, then either typed out using a full range of typographical strategies, or performed with boisterous exuberance. Schwitters 'Ursonate' was directly influenced by a performance of one of hausmann's poems, fmsbwtazdu at an event in Prague in 1921.

Carlo Carrà

February 11 1881

Calro Carrà was an Italian painter and leading figure of the futurist movement that flourished in italy during the beginning of the 20th Century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books about art and taught for many years in Milan.

His futurist phase ended around world war one when he became more interested in stillness and form. he began creating still-lifes in a style he described as 'metaphysical painting'.

Metaphysical art

The name of an Italian art movement, created by Giorgio de Chirico. His dream-like paintings of squares typical of idealized Italian cities, as well as apparently casual juxtapositions of objects, represented a visionary world which engaged most immediately with the unconscious mind, beyond physical reality, hence the name. The metaphysical movement provided significant impetus for the development of Dada and Surrealism.

Images

http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/biografia.php?id_art=170

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George Grosz

July 26 1893

George Grosz was a german artist known especially for his savage caricature drawings of Berlin life in the 1920's. Hw was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada movement and the New objective group durning the weimar Republic before he emigrated to the States.

He was born George Ehrenfried Grob but Changed his name in 1916 out of a romantic adoration for America, which originated from reading books by James Fenimore Cooper, Bret Harte and Karly May.

In 1920, with Heartfield and Otto Dix, he took part in the Erste Internationale Dada-Messe. Grosz and Heartfield criticized the contemporary art world and the elevation of the artist to quasi-divine status. In a letter of opposition to the ‘Novembergruppe’, Grosz called on artists to ‘collaborate in the building of a new human community, the community of working people’.

Grosz made his contribution towards realizing this goal by engaging with contemporary events through his works. For him Dada was the expression of a specific political stance. He remained politically committed even when he left Dada and turned to a realistic style of painting in the 1920s, in keeping with the spirit of the decade.

His earliest oils that can be identified today date from 1916. By 1914, Grosz worked in a style influenced by Expressionism and Futurism, as well as by popular illustration, graffiti, and children's drawings.Sharply outlined forms are often treated as if transparent.

In his drawings, usually in pen and ink which he sometimes developed further with watercolor, Grosz did much to create the image of Berlin and the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. Businessmen, wounded soldiers, prostitutes, sex crimes and orgies were his great subjects. His draftsmanship was very good although the works for which he is best known adopt a deliberately crude form of caricature.

After his emigration to the USA in 1933, Grosz "sharply rejected his previous work, and caricature in general.In place of his earlier corrosive vision of the city, he now painted conventional nudes and many landscape water-colours.

Images

http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=2374

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John Heartfield

19 june 1891

John Heartfield is the anglicised name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld. He chose Heartfield in 1916 to criticise the nationalism and anti-British sentiment prevalent in Germany during World War 1.

He Joined the Berlin Dada club and the communist party of Germany in 1918. He was a highly active member of the Dada movement organising the first International Dada Fair in Berlin in 1920.

After meeting Bertolt Brecht, a man who influenced Hearfield's art, he developed Photomontage into a form of political and artistic expression.

He relocated to England in 1938 after having already moved from Germany to Czechoslovakia in 1933 after the National Socialists came to power.

Images

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/cutandpaste/heartfield.html

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Raoul Hausmann

July 12 1886

Raoul Hausmann as an Austrian artist and writer who was a key figure in the Berlin Dada.

His experimental photographic collage, sound poetry and institutional critiques had a profound influence on the european Avant-garde in the aftermath of World War 2.

His earliest experience of making art was from his farther who was a professional conservator and painter. His experimental prints were influenced by Herwath Walden who he saw in the Der Sturm gallery in 1912.

In keeping with the expressionist views of the time he initially welcomed the war, believing it to be a necessary cleansing of a calcified society.

Hausmann met Hanna Höch in 1915, having an extramarital affair that produced an 'artistically productive' but turbulent bond that lasted until 1922. Two other influential people in his life were Otto Grass and anarchy writer Franz Jung.

The notion of destruction as an act of creation was the point of departure for Hausmann's Dadasoph, his theoretical contribution to the Berlin Dada.

Berlin Dada.

When Richard Huelsenbeck (a close friend of Hugo Ball and one of the founders of Zurich Dada), returned to Berlin in 1917, Hausmann was one of a group of young disaffected artists that began to form the nucleus of Berlin Dada around him. Huelsenbeck delivered his First Dada Speech in Germany, January 22, 1918. Over the course of the next few weeks, Hausmann, Huelsenbeck, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Jung, Höch, Walter Mehring and Baader started the Club Dada. The first event staged was an evening of poetry performances and lectures against the backdrop of a retrospective of paintings by the establishment artistLovis Corinth at the Berlin Sezession 1918.

Images:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/cutandpaste/hausmann.html

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TRYOUT!! JO

This is JO's tryout using, paint...i cant remember the term EPPPP!!!!! anyway here it is...i quite like it however if this technique was to be handed in...i think that it needs a little something extra.....Alise talked about a parcile college....which would be very interesting.....

:)
from bow

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