Monday, March 15, 2010

Dada

The art movement of Dada is amazing in its attempts to ignore language and create pieces based on what something would be without the constraints of language. Seeing that words are used to describe something and we know an object by these words, creating artworks that eliminate these boundaries is what art should be. Art shouldn't have labels or restrictions, it should be what the artists wants to produce whether someone can put words to it or not. Creativity seems to expand with boundaries are broken or eliminated and therefore the artist of the Dada movement created a new world of art by doing just that. The artworks of Man Ray and other artists of the time allowed for simple objects to be turned into new creations. While places like New York rejected these artworks it is because they don't see outside what is "normal" or accepted to broaden their horizons of the world around them. Although everyone thinks differently, it doesn't mean that an art piece we do not understand is not art. I love that the artists during this era made collages of crazy items all together and hidden inside were messages and new forms. The artwork sometimes looked to have motion and chaos, while examining closer, the works of art had everyday words, and common objects. With ever new wave of art, there is a new level of creativity and the artists of Dada broke the realism model and allowed artists to create whatever they really wanted to without judgment.

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