############################################################################### ## SR#002 ÄÍðZhit Axis Nation presentsðÍÄ W () W ## ## Grade: 95 Dadaism and Cubism: Duchamp and Picasso \||/ ## ## || ## ## Written by: Creature of Prometheus _/ \_ ## ## Dated: 6/10/91 ## ## Greet(s) to: EightBall and äà, ZANists!, and all who are reading this... ## ## ## ## Ying Yang BBS The Baron's Bistro FuNHouse BBS ## ## ZAN Promised Land ZAN Mosque#001 ZAN Mosque#002 ## ## SysOp: CoP SysOp: The Baron SysOp: Erasmus ## ############################################################################### ThisClaimer: This is for educational, destructional, and anarchial purposes.. If anything happens to you, I AM responsible... but remember I KNOW where you LIVE!!! You can distribute this in any way (ZIP, by hand), but DO NOT EDIT THIS file!! If you happen to pull out your EDIT prog and work on this, PLEASE leave the opening screen, and add your additions at the end of the file... ]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------[ Dadaism and Cubism: Duchamp and Picasso Since there is a minute similarity between cubism and dadaism, these two movements are extremely different. As the former portrays an original painting style, the latter humiliates art and its movements. One is art, the other, anti-art. Cubism is not an imitation of nature but an imposition upon nature of geometrical forms derived from the human mind. Cezanne noted that natural objects can be reduced to a geometrical form. Cubists perceived objects as parts rather than a whole. They also saw the world simultaneously and fragmentarily from many points of few than entirely from a single viewpoint. Instead of approaching the creation of a three-dimensional painting, cubists acted as architects to build their pictures on straight lines and corners, which defined the planes of the surfaces. At the beginning, cubist colors were neutral tones of gray, olive, and ochre. This was to create unity on the whole entire painting rather than the subject of the painting, as depicted on Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Cubist pictures tended to be cold, impersonal studies in abstract design. However, such modifications of this state as Picasso's Three Musicians began to appear. The flat, two-dimensional order is kept, but the bright coloration gives the canvas a gaiety not found earlier. The subjects show Picasso's interest in circus and theatrical performances. The painting displays a more developed cubism during its time. As cubism has shown originality, dadaism just reacted to the world by "humiliating" art. Dadaism proposed life attitudes that coalesced into understandable philosophies. This movement is called Dada, because the nonsense vocable perfectly connoted its attitudes. As Tristan Tzara recalled, "The beginnings of Dada were not the beginnings of art, but of disgust." Dadaism wanted to destroy the hoaxes of reason and to discover an unreasoned order." Marcel Duchamp was the principal pioneer of Dada. In a period when painting had assumed deep conviction as a way of life, Duchamp gave it up in the midst of success as "not a goal to fill an entire lifetime." Emerging from the Cubist context of Parisian painting in 1912, he sacrificed paints, brushes, and canvas almost entirely to create an anti-art of "Readymade" objects or images. His analytic cubism paintings showed his attempts at reduction rather than abstraction. Duchamp's Chocolate Grinder executed in oil on canvas, but it differed from his earlier, more imaginative pictures in being simply a dry perspective study of a real object. He was dissatisfied with his image of the chocolate grinder for it was still too freighted with the baggage of aesthetic convention that informs any three-dimensional illusion on a flat, regular field. There seemed to be no escape from aesthetics within the minimal conditions, or definition, of the art of painting to him. The solution lay in taking the logical step from the replica of an object to the object itself. Hence the origin by fiat of the Readymades: man-designed, commercially produced utilitarian objects endowed with the status of anti-art by Duchamp's selection and tilting of them. In 1913 he placed a bicycle wheel upside down on a stool; singled out for contemplation in isolation from its normal context and purpose, it seemed strangely enigmatic, especially when the wheel turned pointlessly. Obviously, these two movements can not really be actually contrasted accurately. While cubism shows a style of painting, and dadaism an "attitude". Cubism was rational, while dadaism irrational. Cubism designated a particular painting style that already existed, when dadaism pre-existed the art to which they were applied. [-----] ZAN(c)1991 Fake bullshit sources and you are set!