Dada is the persistently backfiring attempt of a man who hated surrealists to mock them.
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."Dada is the growth of spring leaves.
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."Dada forgives.
And, hey, the first thing I said was that also, and (to the best of my knowledge) true!
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."![]()
I am hardly an art historian, I was just parroting some fact I read somewhere. Possibly here on the Dada or Poe's Law page.
edited 17th Feb '12 6:42:27 PM by OhnoaBear
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."If you calling something without a message art you are giving it a message in reference to its lack of message.
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."Even 'You're awful and don't deserve art' is a message! Unless you're talking about things that were made without any particular message in mind. That can still be art, but right now I'm just mocking Dada because we spent so long talking about it in an art history class I had to take.
edited 18th Feb '12 7:22:38 AM by Arha
Dada is first and foremost an expression of distaste for mankind and its ideals during one of the most wasteful and pointless wars in human history.
And then people nearly a removed nearly a century in time, and a millenium in context, re-appropropriate it to be just stringing Inherently Funny Words together.
In terms of art and entertainment, I prescribe in many ways to the polar counterpart to Dada, that is Brechtian minimalism. But I recognize the importance of Dada in the history of art, and the strong despair that inspired it.

Dada is bunnies.