12/17/15
Pd. 1
A1. Dada began a few years after WWI, a few years after 1918
A2. Dada was a response to the monstrosities of WWI
Q3. Who was a Dada artist and what was special about them?
A3. Marcel Duchamp, who truly summed up the attitude of the Dadaists. He was the central
artist of New York Dada and was “perhaps the most influential of all the the Dadaists…”
(Chap.22, Page 975)
A4. Automatism is the process of yielding to instinctive actions after establishing a set of
conditions within which a work would be carried out. A Zurich Dadaist, Zean (Hans) Arp,
specialized in automatic drawings made in a two step process that he began by letting his pencil
by wander over the paper with as little intellectual control as possible. Then he scrutinized the
patterns made for shapes that seemed to have significance to him and filled those contours with
ink to create a final design
A5. A composition made by fitting together pictures of parts of pictures, especially photographs.
This technique of pasting together pieces of paper was long before the 20th century. The parts of
a Dada collage were made almost entirely of found images, usually combined into deliberately
anti-logical compositions.
During class, you told us that the answer to question six was not included in the packet and did
not need to be answered.
A7. Dada relates to context in the way that in art, it is hard to perceive the artist’s message with
lack of context. if you did not know that Dada was a response to WWI, then a whole new
message could be interpreted, perhaps even contradicting the real message.