MPC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jean Arp, George Grosz, John Heartfield
18 Jan 2019
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In 1916 in switzerland, a group of artists got together and decide to have a protest art group called dada. Dada: stood for absurdity, protest, silliness, anti-art, anti-politics, anti-middle class, they were against all standards, they stood for pushing the boundaries of what art could be, artists were provocative, was an international movement. In berlin, dada becomes highly political because the average person struggled with the post-war years: (insert graph) Jean (hans) arp (german, 1887-1966), collage according to the laws of chance, 1916-1917: consider chance as a creative tool the artists use. Jean (hans) arp (german, 1887-1966), the forest, 1916: looking back to old techniques. George grosz (german, 1893-1959), remember uncle august, the unhappy inventor, George grosz (german, 1893-1959), daum marries her pedantic automaton. George in may 1920, john heartfield in very glad of it. , 1920: portrait, her name is muad, he flipped it to be daum, applied lace to the painting.
