Saturday, February 18, 2006

Dada on Display





Marcel Duchamp's urinal art, Fountain. Marcel Duchamp/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/Succession Marcel Duchamp © 2005

"In 1917, Duchamp created one of his "ready-made" works -- again in the spirit of challenging what society defined as art. A mass-produced object -- in this case a sparkling white porcelain urinal bought from a plumbing supplier -- was turned on its side, signed, and called "Fountain." When Duchamp tried to enter it in a New York exhibition, it was refused. Paris museum director Alfred Packmon observes that Duchamp and the Dadaists were making the point that art was no longer just a nice bunch of flowers on the wall: "The artist is the person who decides what is art and what is not art.”
Dada was a moral and ethical response to the slaughter of World War I. In grief, rage, and despair, Dada used art to comment on the world, making art an indictment of the hypocrisies that wiped out a generation." NPR

Schedule:National Gallery of Art, February 19–May 14, 2006; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 8–September 11, 2006

2 comments:

Nelish said...

hola: creo que el dada superficialmente la gente lo puede mal entender, pero creo que cada persona tenía su manera de expresar sus sentimientos en contra de la guerra.. yo creo que esto era una liberación total y me impresiona cómo deben de haber sentido esa cruda vida que les imponían para llegar a irrumpir tan fuertemente en algo tan estructurado que era el arte, aunque ya estaba un poco suabizado con el cubismo... pero igual, la guerra tuvo sus pro y sus contras, si bien este es un pro que surgió de un contra , hace darnos cuenta lo ilimitado que puede ser la expresión humana.
SAludos!

Nelish said...

suavizado, jeje