Tag Archives: Dada

finding beauty in the abysmal

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Art

…the classic flower in the dustbin… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) THIS is the first punk poster i ever saw. i was attending western washington state college (now, ‘university’) in bellingham, washington. it was 1978 and i was a student trying … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged american trash culture, Dada, frank edie, franko posters, French Situationist, fruitland famine band, jamie reid situationist, Jamie Reid The Sex Pistols, jello biafra, modernism, penelope houston, punk rock movement, Sex Pistols, supergraphics, Surrealism, Ted Bundy, The Dead Kennedys, The Rocket, the rocket newspaper, western washington state college | Leave a comment

TIE DYE REVOLUTIONISTS: BAD CHEMICAL REACTION

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Dave

Yesterday’s radicalism fades in unaccountable ways into today’s reaction, and what the revolutionaries intended to build may turn out the precise reverse. ( Hannah Arendt ) What was new with the 60′s counter-culture was the sheer mass character of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, Arnold Toynbee, Baudelaire, Beatles, Bertolt Brecht, Brecht, Byron, Cabaret Voltaire, Dada, Dope Inc. Dave McGowan, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Hannah Arendt, Heinz Edelmann, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Milton Glaser, Picabia, Picasso, Ram Dass, Richard Alpert, Sam Huntington, Schwitters, Stillman, Timothy Leary, Yellow Submarine | 4 Comments

PARALLEL STRESS OF CONCEPTUAL ART

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Dave

The earliest conceptual artists to get wide public attention were the Earth Artists, including Michael Heizer, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, and Walter De Maria, who in October, 1968, exhibited mainly photographic documentation of their works in a group show called … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Bruce Nauman, Dada, Dada Movement, Dennis Oppenheim, Jack Burnham, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Kosuth, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Heizer, Robert Morris, Walter De Maria | 2 Comments

AFTER THIS UNCOMMERCIAL BREAK

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Dave

At 4000 AD/ When science and art are entirely/Melted together to something new/When the people will have lost their remembrance/and thus will have no past, only future/…Then they will live in a world of only/Color, light, space, time,sounds and movement/Then … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aaron Shuster, Alexander Calder, Allan Krapow, Billboard Liberation Front, Chris Burden, Dada, Dadaism, Dadaist Art, Dadaists, Dan Graham, David Hall, David Stanley Shire, Frieze magazine, Jack Napier, Jackson Pollock, Jeff Koons, Lynda benglis, Martha Rosler, Martha Stewart, Michael Snow, Nicholas Schoffer, Piet Mondrian, Sarah Milroy, Stan Douglas, Stanley Brouwn, Tatis, tatis Sculptures, Terri Helene Keyser, United Art Contractors | 7 Comments

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Dave

Madness, love and mysticism. Perhaps everything you always wanted to know about Dali, Freud, Psychoanalysis and Pictorial Surrealism. Salvador Dali was immersed in the conquest of the irrational, infinite and likely futile search for the unconscious and its meaning. His … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Abby Hoffman, Andre Breton, Carl Jung, Dada, Dadaist, Felix Guattari, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Freud, Fugs, Gilles Deleuze, Herman Hesse, Jacques Lacan, Joan Miro, Juan Miro, Lacan, Luis Bunuel, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Max Ernst, miro, R.D. Laing, Richard Huelsenbeck, Roy Behrens, Salvador dali, Siddhartha, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Surrealist Manifesto, Timothy Leary, Wittgenstein | 4 Comments

Art For the Doomsday Scenario

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Dave

Kinetic art in the Dada tradition known as metamechanics or sculptured machines were a form symptomatic of the New Realist school of art and manifesto as signed by Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely. Tinguely satirized the inherent nature of … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Dada, Jean Tinguely, Kinetic Art, Kinetic Sculptures, Mark Jenkins, New Realism, Nouveau Realistes | 1 Comment

Dali and his bread penny loafers

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Dave

I was chatting with indy filmaker Mike Lewis last week at Studio Backstage on the subject of what at the time seemed to be incoherent and bizarre Dada influenced offshoots of the pre-war period.The list included Robert Johnson and Franz … Continue reading →