Thursday, February 17, 2011

Pre World War I


Jean-Jacques Rousseau rejected the separation between performer and spectator, life and theatre. Karl Marx posited that art was a response to the course system and so figured, in a communist society, there would only be people who participate in the building of art no “artists”.

Arguably
the first movement that deliberately set itself versus established art was the Incoherent in late 19th. Century Paris. Founded by Jules Lévy in 1882, the Incoherent organized charitable art exhibitions supposed to have been satirical and humoristic, they presented “…drawings by individuals who can’t draw step by step…” and held masked balls with artistic themes, all in the greater tradition of Montmartre cabaret culture. While temporary - the past Incoherent show occurred in 1896 - the movement was popular for its entertainment value. In their persistence for satire, irreverence and ridicule they produced several works that report remarkable formal similarities to creations with the avant-garde with the Twentieth century: ready-mades, monochromes , empty frames and silence as music.

Dada and constructivism

From Switzerland, during the first world war, a lot of Dada, and several aspects of the art movements it inspired, such as Neo-Dada, Nouveau réalisme and Fluxus, is considered anti-art. Dadaists rejected cultural and intellectual conformity in art and more broadly in society.[31]For precisely what art represented, Dada would have been to represent the contrary.
Where art was
worried about traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics whatsoever. If art ended up being to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend. Through their rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics the Dadaists hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics. Simply because they were more politicized, the Berlin dadas were one of the most radically anti-art within Dada. In 1919, within the Berlin group, the Dadaist revolutionary central council outlined the Dadaist beliefs in radical communism.

Starting in 1913 Marcel Duchamp’s readymade challenged individual creativity and redefine art like a nominal as opposed to an important object.
Tristan Tzara indicated: “I am against systems;
the most acceptable method is on principle to possess none.” Furthermore, Tzara, who once stated that “logic is always false”, probably approved of Walter Serner’s vision of your “final dissolution”. A core concept in Tzara’s thought was that “as long once we do things just how we feel we once did them we'll be struggling to achieve any kind of livable society.”
Originating in Russia in 1919, constructivism rejected art in its entirety so that as a certain activity developing a universal aesthetic towards practices directed towards social purposes, “useful” to everyday routine, for instance graphics, advertising and photography. In 1921, exhibiting at the 5×5=25 exhibition, Alexander Rodchenko created monochromes and proclaimed the finish of painting techniques. For artists with the Russian Revolution, Rodchenko’s radical action was filled with utopian possibility. It marked the finish of art along with the end of bourgeois norms and practices. It cleared the way for the beginning of your new Russian life, a fresh mode of production, a new culture.


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