Readymade, Dada, Anti-Art, Surrealism, Freud, Breton

Question 1

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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, urinal, Dada

Question 2

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Meret Oppenheim, Object: For Breakfast, 1936, fur covered cup, Surrealism

Question 3

readymade

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Question 4

dada

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Question 5

surrealism

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Question 6

How did the Dada movement express the post WWI period?

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Question 7

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Kandinsky, Improvisation 28 (Second Version), 1912, oil on canvas, Blue Rider

Question 8

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Malevich, Suprematist Painting (Eight Red Rectangles), 1915, oil on canvas, Suprematist

Question 9

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Tatlin, Corner Counter Relief, 1915, mixed media, Constructivist

Question 10

suprematism

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An art movement founded by Kazemir Malevich in Russia around 1913, based on the supremacy of an abstract art that celebrates pure artistic feeling rather than the representation of things. Geometry was the language of suprematism, which favored the circle and the square. Malevich’s White on White (1918) and Black Square are illustrative.

Question 11

constructivism

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Constructivism was an art movement that saw the artist in service of the nation and state. Arising during the Russian revolutionary period, when the old order was being swept away, Constructivism viewed the role of the artist to be that of social engineer, to be a leading light for the largely illiterate Russian populous.

Question 12

How did artists express the new ideals for the Russian Revolution? Discuss the work in formal and historic terms.

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