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Hugo Ball, 1916
(Dada- Soiree)
Paper costume he couldn't even walk in
Nonsense words created with ritualistic feel- doesn't matter what he says, but trance like state.
(Objects and masks- what they do and what power they have) |
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Sophie Turner, 1920
Made pattern, placed onto 3D form- beads reference traditional craft
Heads are: sculptural portraits
Sculptural comparison to portraits- don't capture likeness
Ethnographic? Spiritual power?
Hat stand?
No real place that fits- frustrates categorization |
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| Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany |
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Hannah Hoch, 1919-1920
Shifts power of interpretation to viewer
Mapping a cosmology of current politics
What does this mean within history of a pictorial surface? |
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George Grosz, 1920 - dif medium from life drawings (photomontage and water color)
Develops vocab of types within society in which he lives in
Implementing cast of real life into cast of public life
Space emphasizes intimacy (behind closed doors)
Detests society he's living in but also aware he's living in it (self loathing)
Photomontages window as well as organs- urban space has crept into his core itself. |
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| Monument to the Third International |
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Vladimir Tatlin, 1919
Both a monument and functional building (different)
Monuments built to signify heroic figure, now it served as HQ for communist party. It revolved and used modern materials |
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| The Factory Workbench Await You |
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El Lissitzky, 1920- abstraction to create propoganda
Forms come together to express how people need to come together. Encourage people to return to work |
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| Hanging Spatial Construction |
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Aleksandr Rodchenko, 1921 - what motivates form here?
Designs work to function in a particular way to viewer- viewer engages with it.
Solutions must work for everyone
What motivates form? |
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| Advertisement for cooking oil for the state department store Mossel’prom |
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Aleksandr Rodchenko and Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1923- Print styles- style is no longer personal, but a brand identity
State run businesses not trying to make profit
No longer expressing themselves but working for a solution to get people to buy |
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| EM1, EM2, EM3 (telephone paintings) |
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Lázló Moholy-Nagy, 1922-23
Shift from "art" to "design" Constructivism?
Method of calling over phone, emphasizing distance of manufacturing process to produce and degree of tech involved. |
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| La Femme 100 Têtes (The Hundred Headless Woman) |
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Max Ernst, 1929
Photomontage practice
In terms of collage with Hoch
The Uncanny/ the marvelous convulsive beauty
Sense of scale is off, not photo illustration |
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René Magritte, 1930
Same script, wants us to read in the same way
But labels contradict pictures |
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Man Ray, 1933
Looks like the head of a minotaur- head of bull w/ scary face
Not artless- he's lit and framed his subject
He's seen the representation and took the image- you see one or the other |
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André Breton, 1928- Whole ass book about questioning reality
Establishes his bearings for a long time- using text and images to describe places or memories of places
Meets Nadja- her as an idea enraptures him
She turns out to be batshit- he's driven to insanity |
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Pablo Picasso, Geurnica 1937 -
Two different light sources- planes didn't reflect that. Distorted facial features
High contrast- very movie/documentary like
Reproduction of how movies were being made in the 1930s- size and ration similar to that of film.
Condeming war attack on Geurnica
Negative view on modern tech |
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Dorothea Lange, 1936
Documenting the Depression and migratory labor
Working to provide but not being able to- pictures question what we need to do as a society
Face to identify with- transcends specificity
Reservations on being foster child for poverty- how true is "documentary"? |
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| Collective Farm Girl on Bicycle |
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Aleksandr Deineka, 1935
Social realism was 1 style- but no one specified what it would be.
Focus on regular people, everyday moment between "here and there"
Socialist life that should be celebrated
Signs of modernity- bike/truck
Have to imagine where she's going |
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| Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a Better Future, commission for Rockefeller Plaza |
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Diego Rivera, 1933- Gets criticized for being involved with Rockafellar by the communists?
Monumental public creation requires so much buy-in
Story as a common value until someone comes to chip it off the wall. |
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| Hurrah, the Butter is Finished! |
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John Heartfield, 1935 -"Get guns or feed people?"
People bought into that- sure, we'll eat this weapon instead
Ridiculous contradictions in ideology presented as normal
Common family dinner scene |
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