Transcript DADA in Germany (Hannover)

DADA in
Germany
(Cologne Köln)
Max Ernst
and Magic
DADA
Max Ernst
1891, Bruhl (Germany) 1976, Paris (France). He had his first art
exhibit (expressionism) in 1912 in
Cologne. He then traveled to Paris where
he met the French artistic and literary
vanguard: Picasso, Delaunay, Apollinaire,
Braque and Arp. He invited Arp to come to
Cologne in 1914 and Arp urged him to join
him in Zurich. He refused and served in
the German army where he was wounded
until 1918 when he came back to
Cologne. Through Arp he learned about
Dada and went to Berlin to meet the Dada
group. He was not impressed by their
strong political positions but was seduced
by the freedom of their esthetics and their
intellectual activism and artistic public
provocation. “Dadamax”.
In 1919 he and Baargeld
created the radical newspaper
Der Ventilator (suppressed by
the English occupying army).
They created Bulletin D and
then Die Schamade. This is
when he went beyond the
“papiers collés by Braque and
Picasso and created what will
be called “collage” (a form of
“assemblage”). His exploration
of the collage is at the origin of
some of his most famous Dada
creations that were realized by
mixing painting and collage.
Other realizations are very
close to the Picabia technical
drawings of the same period.
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The papiers collés of Braque and Picasso are
simple plastic solutions in which cutout elements
imitating a real material (wood, marble,
newspaper) play the part of counterpoint to the
lines or shapes which the artist has invented or
interpreted. In his collages, on the contrary, Max
Ernst is far from being principally concerned with
plastic construction. With a single stroke he
plunges us into the drama by making elements of
our known world confront each other in an
irritating manner, thus violating the accepted
canons of thought, logic and morality. . . .
Catalogue, Max Ernst Exhibition ,
1953
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)
born in Volos, Greece, to Italian parents,
studied art in Athens, Munich and Paris
before moving back to Italy where,
together with Carlo Carrà, he created the
Pittura Metafisica (metaphysical painting).
The Pittura Metafisica was centered
around stark views of semi-abstract
figures, a deserted collection of distorted
mannequins and solitary easels made
even more menacing by harsh light effects
and oblique perspective. The new style
was supposed to overcome the limitations
of Cubism, which de Chirico had
experienced in Paris, where he had met
Picasso. Among de Chirico's best works
from the period are The Nostalgia of the
Infinite and Mystery and Melancholy of a
Street .The movement, however, was
short-lived, coming to an end in the early
1920s, when de Chirico and Carrà has a
conflict over who had invented the
concept of metaphysical painting.
Homage to
the Infinite
[1911]
1913
De Chirico 1988-1978 (mystical painting)
The Herald
Song of love
1914
1916
Ariane 1914
1913
Mystery and nostalgy of the street
1913 Delights of the poet
1915 The enigma of the night
Max Ernst
1923 Ubu Imperator
1921 Celebes
Max Ernst on top of Sky Mountain
Ranch in Sedona (AZ)
Foundation of an artist colony
Little Machines
Constructed by Minimax
Dadamax in Person
(Von minimax dadamax
selbst konstruiertes
maschinchen), 1919–20