vorticism & dada

Vorticism

• English version of Cubism (sort of)

• Short lived movement

• Modernist, abstract

• David Bomberg, the Mudbath, 1914

• Wyndham LewisWorkshop circa 1914-5Oil on canvas

• Tate shots: Female vorticists

• Vorticist Notebook

Dada

Tristan Tzara, How to Make a Dadaist Poem

• Take a newspaper.Take some scissors.Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.Cut out the article.Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag.Shake gently.Next take out each cutting one after the other.Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.The poem will resemble you.And there you are--an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd

• Jean Arp Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance), 1916-17

• Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. Edited by Tristan Tzara. Zürich, 1917

• Zurich group at Cabaret Voltaire

• Every man his own football,Magazine cover of February 15, 1919 (Berlin)

• Cabaret Voltaire now

• Marcel Duchamp and the ideas of the Dada movement

• Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919

• LHOOQ

• Elle a chaud au cul

• Alfred Steiglitz photograph of The Fountain, 1917

• Signed “Louise Norton”

• "Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He chose it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under a new title and point of view -- he created a new thought for the object.“

Marcel Duchamp

• Readymades

• “Concept, not retina”

• “The viewer completes the work of art.”