1. List between 5 and 10 aspects of design that is associated with this
movement.
2. Focus must be on at least four designers/artists that belong to this era.
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DADA
Characteristics of Dada
-Typography is chaotic. Mix of font faces. Unorthodox punctuation. Mixed sizes and upper/lowercase.
-Abstract
-Photomontages. Cutouts of photos from newspapers/magazines etc.
-Collage - paper, fabric and other 2D items combined to make abstract visuals
-Assemblage - 3d sculptures made from found objects
Some Artists
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt did many collage pieces and drew inspirations from the Dadaists of Germany. He named his collage pieces "Merz". He has also done abstract drawings and used many other mediums for his creativity. He fled Germany during WW2 so he could continue to practice his art, as the Nazi's tried to eradicate many free thinking artists.
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Merz Pictures, 1921. montage on board.
Max Ernst helps to arrange the first DADA exhibiton in Cologne and was involved in many DADA publications as well. He was originally going to be a psychiatrist but becomes a painter instead. His artworks can be very complex.
Pieta or Revolution by Night - Max Ernst
Man Ray was a dada artist and a surrealist artist. His first pro-Dada object was an assemblage titled "Self Portrait" and was exhibited in 1916. He lived in New York City and was friends with Marcel Duchamp. He was disappointed with his Dada experiments in New York and left for Paris, stating that "Dada cannot live in New York".
Sade - Man Ray
John Heartfield used his art to protest Hitler and the Nazi party. He used photo montages and had a satirical approach. His protest against war, greed and corrupt powers attributes him to the DADA movement.
John Heartfield - Seeds of Death
REFERENCES
http://www.towson.edu/heartfield/art/5.html
http://www.artpages.org.ua/index.php?option=com_datsogallery&Itemid=104&func=viewcategory&catid=6
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/techniques/typography.shtml
http://greenlanddesign.org/coleg/2009/01/dada/
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