Dada (1950 CE)

Question 1

Fountain

Answer 1

Standard urinal that is on its back instead of mounted on the wall
Ready-made (regular object designated by the artist as art)
Assaults convention
Reflects criticism of “good taste” (shows an object that gets pissed on as fine art)
Challenges the idea of what art is (art is concept in addition to product)
R. Mutt (Duchamp’s alter ego, Richard is slang for “moneybags” and Mutt was a fat man in a comic strip)

Question 2

Fountain IDs

Answer 2

Marcel Duchamp
1950 CE (original 1917 CE)
Dada
Ready-made glazed sanitary china with black paint

Question 3

Dada

Answer 3

Response to WWI (“insane spectacle of collective homicide”)
Ridicule and nonsense
Political anarchy (irrationality and intuitiveness)
Similar to Freud (unconscious and inner drive control us)
Tap into the subconcious!
Falls apart due to lack of cooperation
Conceptual rather than a style