MPC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bicycle Wheel, Oskar Panizza, Marcel Duchamp
17 May 2016
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Expressionism is the enemy because of the perceived escapism. July 5, 1920: first international dada fair : eclectic approach to presentation; intermix of media. Founded from group of artists esecaping war during wwi. Merz 19: almost poetic and true to understanding of how the materials related into each other; interrelation of soft-hard edge; presented coherently. Constructed a type of collage from scraps of paper he found throught the city which related to the society, he called them merz pictures. Focuses on numbers, commenting on our society"s obsession with numbers ($) Merz picture 32a cherry picture: uses 3d objects, more 3d than picasso; assemblage . Hannover merzbau: 3d structure that deal s with the notion of a fragmented collage. Dada movement: interrelation between the natural and the mechanic, states that we start to behave like machines. Parade amoureuse: compares machinery to the human body.
