M O D E R N I S M
The beginning of the 20th century is also the beginning of the modern era that brought many notable events to humanity and the 1st world war was the most catastrophic as it destroyed the world. The war brought the economic depression.
Art in its realization and direction depends on the decade that it lives in. I think that the most successful art will be the one that will reflect the thousands of problems of the time it lives in. For this reason I have decided to choose Dadaism or Dada
Dada was something completely new and something unseen to society, it was like a “boom” of new forms and colours. The movement concentrated its believes on anti-war ideas trough a rejection of existing standards of art that conservative modernists presented such as good conservative moral values and offered inspiring Christian sentiment.
Dada supposinggly as story goes Hugo ball and others were randomly looking through a dictionary and they eventually came across the word hobby horse in french or Da da, to “YES yes in Russian as well as it could also be translated to many other words. Is the word that can be easily understood by everyone, it’s terribly simple. There is kind of no sense in that word as it can be translated to many languages, they looking for that lack of sense.
Duchamp become one of the key artist’s of the 20th century in terms avant-garde and modern art in general, he was one of the first artists who started taking pieces of Mass-produced commodity and transforming them into art.
The artists wanted to escape the catastrophic conditions of what the first war brought them
The artist would go to a shop to buy an object and therefore won’t any play any role in terms of its creation or transformation of the object. He simply presented it as it is.
This urinal is the work of art that Duchamp created in 1917. I think that it becomes an installation after it gets in the relation with the museum, at the same time it’s just a
deconstructed toilet
I think that the artist literally “took the piss” to break the traditional concepts of beauty that the bourgeois society was standing for.
I think the sense of that object changes as you see it in the different place rather then in the shop, so that could also make the object have an artistic feel.
So it makes the object and the environment be in the new connection.
There is another great example that I’d like to mention here is the ready made style in terms of drawing. Francis Picabia was taking forms that have been created in modern times such as mechanisms and other forms of industrialised age.
I personally think that this idea is very important as the artist was presenting the time he was living in trying to express the activity of human as well as state of mind.
Essay by Anton Rogov
