Rousseau, The Dream, 1910

Odilon Redon, Cyclops, c. 1912

Chagall, Paris Through a Window, 1913

Chagall, I and The Village, 1911

Giorgio de Chirico, The Soothsayer's Recompense, 1913

Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, 1914

Dada (1914-20’S) (absorbed by Surrealism in the mid-20s)

irrationality, anarchy, cynicism and the rejection of laws of beauty and social organization

anti-art that would destroy culture and therefore war

Hugo Ball reciting sound poems in the Cabaret Voltaire, 1916

Tristan Tzara

DADA knows everything. DADA spits everything out. BUT . . . . . . . . .

HAS DADA EVER SPOKEN TO YOU:about Italy

about accordionsabout women's pantsabout the fatherland

about sardinesabout Fiume

about Art (you exaggerate my friend)about gentlenessabout D'Annunzio

what a horrorabout heroism

about mustachesabout lewdness

about sleeping with Verlaineabout the ideal (it's nice)

about Massachusettsabout the pastabout odorsabout salads

about genius, about genius, about geniusabout the eight-hour dayabout the Parma violets

 NEVER        NEVER       NEVERDADA doesn't speak. DADA has no fixed idea. DADA doesn't catch flies.

THE MINISTRY IS OVERTURNED.   BY WHOM?BY DADA

The Futurist is dead. Of What? Of DADAA Young girl commits suicide. Because of What? DADA

The spirits are telephoned. Who invented it? DADASomeone walks on your feet. It's DADA

If you have serious ideas about life,If you make artistic discoveries

and if all of a sudden your head begins to crackle with laughter,

If you find all your ideas useless and ridiculous, know that

         IT IS DADA BEGINNING TO SPEAK TO YOUcubism constructs a cathedral of artistic liver paste

WHAT DOES DADA DO? expressionism poisons artistic sardines

WHAT DOES DADA DO? simultaneism is still at its first artistic communion

WHAT DOES DADA DO? futurism wants to mount in an artistic lyricism-elevator

WHAT DOES DADA DO? unanism embraces allism and fishes with an artistic line

WHAT DOES DADA DO? neo-classicism discovers the good deeds of artistic art

WHAT DOES DADA DO? paroxysm makes a trust of all artistic cheeses

WHAT DOES DADA DO? ultraism recommends the mixture of these seven

artistic things WHAT DOES DADA DO?

creationism vorticism imagism also propose some artistic recipes

WHAT DOES DADA DO?

WHAT DOES DADA DO?50 francs reward to the person who finds the best

way to explain DADA to usDada passes everything through a new net.

Dada is the bitterness which opens its laugh on all that which has been made consecrated forgotten in our

language in our brain in our habits.It says to you: There is Humanity and the lovely

idiocies which have made it happy to this advanced age

DADA HAS ALWAYS EXISTEDTHE HOLY VIRGIN WAS ALREADY A DADAIST

DADA IS NEVER RIGHT

Citizens, comrades, ladies, gentlemen                        Beware of forgeries!

Imitators of DADA want to present DADA in an artistic form which it has never had

CITIZENS,You are presented today in a pornographic form, a vulgar and baroque spirit which is not the PURE

IDIOCY claimed by DADABUT DOGMATISM AND PRETENTIOUS IMBECILITY

Dada (1914-20’S) and Surrealism

Andre Breton, 1924

“Surrealism … (is) pure psychic automatism …. Thought in the absence of all control exerted

by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations … based on the belief in the

superior reality of certain forms of associations heretofore neglected, in the omnipotence

of the dream and the disinterested play of thought.”

“Surreality (is) the reconciliation of the reality of dreams with the reality of everyday life

into a higher Synthesis.”

Expressions of the Unconscious: Chance Play

Automatisms

(Freud, Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious, 1911)

Hans (Jean) Arp

Zurich Dada

Collage arranged according to the laws of chance1916-1917, torn and pasted paper, 19 x 13”

Automatic Drawing 1917-18 Ink and pencil on paper,

16 3/4 x 21 1/4"

Arp, Collage made according to the rules of Chance, 1916

Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin)1924

Gelatin silver print 11 5/8 x 8 15/16 in.

Indestructible Object (or Object to be Destroyed)1923 (replica of 1964)

Metronome with cutout photograph of eye on pendulum wood, metal, paint and photograph

8 x 4 x 4”

Man Ray

Picabia, Portrait of Cezanne, 1920

FP St. Vierge 15

Picabia, Girl Born without a Mother, 1918

Francis Picabia - Here, This is Stieglitz/ Faith and Love , 1915

Marcel Duchamp

The Fountain1917

“ready-made”, porcelain plumbing fixtureand enamel paint, 24” h.

Marcel Duchamp

Fountain, 1917porcelain plumbing fixtureand enamel paint, 24” h.

Bicycle Wheel. New York 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913)

Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool,

51 x 25 x 16 1/2"

“ready-made”“ready-made-aided”

Marcel Duchamp

L.H.O.O.Q.

Original Version:1919, Paris

reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisawith added mustache, goatee, and title

LHOOQ in 291 and LHO,19

Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912

Marcel Duchamp

Bottle Rack, 1913 - 1914

Bicycle Wheel. New York 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913)

Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool, 51 x 25 x 16 1/2"

“ready-made”

“ready-made-aided”

Rrose Selavy 21Duchamp, Rrose Selavy, 1921

Belle Haleine 21; Rrose Selavy

Belle HaleineL 21 and detail

To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, Buenos Aires 1918.

Oil, silver leaf, lead wire, and magnifying lens on glass (cracked), mounted between panes of glass in a standing metal frame,

20 1/8 x 16 1/4 x 1 1/2", on painted wood base, 1 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 4 1/2“, Overall 22" high.

Duchamp, Large Glass, 1915 - 23

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)

Oil paint, varnish, lead foil, lead wire, and dust on two glass plates (cracked), each mounted between two glass panels

in a steel and wood frame 1915-23 , 272.5 x 175.8 cm

Marcel Duchamp

MD Large Glass diagram

MD Boîte-en-Valise 35-41

Duchamp, Boîte-en-Valise, 1941

MD Etant Donnés 46-66Duchamp, Etant Donnés, 1946-66

MD Etant Donnés 46-66Durer, 1525, Projections Grid

Meret Oppenheim, Objet: dejeuner en fourrure (Luncheon in Fur), 1936, fur covered cup, saucer, and spoon, height 3"

Man Ray Portrait of Meret Oppenheim

Heartfield, Don’t Be Frightened he is a Vegetarian, 1932

“…Rather than setting out to paint something, I begin painting and as I paint,

the picture begins to assert itself…The first stage is free, unconscious …The

second stage is carefully calculated.”

Joan Miró

Birth of the World, 1925, o/c, 8 x 6’

Automatism - allowing the hand to wander across the canvas surface without any interference from the conscious mind.

The resulting marks will not be random or meaningless, but guided at every point

by the functioning of the artist’s unconscious mind, and not by rational

thought or artistic training.

Joan Miro, Dutch Interior I, 1928, oil on canvas, 36 x 28”

Dog Barking at the Moon 1926

oil on canvas 36 x 28”

Joan Miró

The Persistence of Memory 1931

oil on canvas, 9 x 13”

Salvador DaliCritical Paranoia

Salvador Dali, Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, 1938

Salvador Dali, Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, 1938

Untitled, c. 1938wire, sheet metal, string, wooden balls, and paint

51 x 84 in.

Alexander Calder

Little Spider, c. 1940sheet metal, wire, and

paint43 3/4 x 50 x 55 in.