For your 2nd blog responses please post any Dadaist definitions of art that you find in your readings (We will be posting on AntiArt later).
For example: "A creative art, a power of the creative instinct, a heroic art which embodies all that is serious and all that is fortuitous in life's laws. Dada regarded art as an adventure of liberated humanity." [Richter p. 49].
"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb..." Hans Arp.
"The bottle-rack says 'Art is junk'. The urinal says 'Art is a trick'." [Richter p.90].
ReplyDelete.."the art which we are seeking is the key to every former art: a salomonic key that will open all mysteries."- Motherwell p 54
ReplyDelete"..art is not serious, I assure you and if in exhibiting crime we learnedly say ventilator, it is to give you pleasure kind reader." Tzara, Motherwell p 76
"Art is going to sleep for a new world to be born....Art is a pretension warmed by the timidity of the urinary basin, the hysteria born in the studio."
- Tzara , "Dada Manifesto #3" - Motherwell p 82
"...art is a habit-forming drug and I wanted to protect my 'readymades' against such a contamination." -Duchamp, Richter p.90
ReplyDelete"He[Duchamp] declared that these ready-mades became works of art as soon as he said they were. When he 'chose' this or that object, a coal shovel for example, it was lifted from the limbo of unregarded objects into the world of works of art: looking at it made it into art!"
ReplyDelete-Richter, p. 88
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. Man Ray
ReplyDelete"Art is an outlet toward regions which are not ruled by time and space." Marcel Duchamp
ReplyDelete"art is useless and dead, the self-expression of a decaying society, and that personal action must take its place. Life itself as an artistic adventure!" Craven
ReplyDelete"...abstract art was for us tantamount to absolute honor." - Huelsenbeck, Motherwell 24
ReplyDelete"...art must be neither realistic nor idealistic, it must be true; and by this he [Archipenko] meant above all that any imitation of nature, however concealed, is a lie." - Huelsenbeck, Motherwell 24
"Art is a primordial concept, exalted as the godhead, inexplicable as life, indefinable and without purpose." - Schwitters, Motherwell 59
Art is making something out of nothing then selling it. Art is also any form of human self expression, creatively in the attempt achieving reactions amongst the senses or feelings or emotions. It can also be complex works of literature,music,paintings and sculptures,etc. Art to me is any for of creative expression- Jon Dahlhauser
ReplyDelete"Art afflicts no one and a fine opportunity to populate the country with their conversation. Art is a private affair, the artist produces it for himself" Tristan Tzara. Pg. 40
ReplyDelete"Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art will be that which in its conscious content presents the thousandfold problems of the day, the art which has been visibly shattered by the explosions of last week, which is forever trying to collect its limbs after yesterday's crash." -Huelsenbeck, Motherwell, 242-3
ReplyDeleteDuchamp described his approach to art making as coming out of his desire to push "the idea of doubt of Descartes...to a much farther point than they ever did in the School of Cartesianism: doubt in myself, doubt in everything. In the first place never believing in truth."
ReplyDelete"Here, therefore, a scientific mind set out, using artistic materials, to create an artistic statement which would constitute a synthesis between scientific and artistic endeavour. Science in conjunction with the artistic Erod? A new unity of perception and stimulus! . . . Art? [Richter p. 95]
ReplyDelete"Even when Dada called for changes in the established order, Art always lay behind it somewhere." [Richter p. 114]