Wednesday, February 14, 2007

My response to DADA~

After browsing around the DADA website, I am interested in the pieces of Art works shown in different categories. The most impressive part for me is that the idea or the concept adopted by Dadaist is consistent with what we have read from the first reading “the use of form”. In our reading, we explored about the recombination of art works of different forms, for instances, the remix of music by deejay. However, in the website, it is more focusing on artworks using “readymade” elements as tools.
Furthermore, there is another idea I found in the website, in common with our reading. That is, everything could be art, even the daily candy wrappers, pictures, or words printed in different fonts.

I looked at Schwitter's artwork, he adopted at least two kinds of technique in his works. Artwork #1, Artwork #2

On artwork #1, assemblage of wood, oil, metal, and board on board, with artist's frame were used as material. These material are all things that we may use in daily lives. So this is the collage technique.

On artwork #2, in this piece of artwork, not only collage was adopted, with the use of different size and types of fonts, typography is used.

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