1916-1918 / Brush and ink with watercolor and shell gold over a 19th-century French lithographic illustration; laid down on canvas / 19 1/2”x12 7/8” / National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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November 30~ Artists at their Easels
Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/30~
Richard Boix. Da-da (New York Dada Group). 1921. Ink on paper. 11 1/4″ x 14 1/2″ (28.6 x 36.8 cm)On July 14, 1916, the poet Hugo Ball proclaimed the manifesto for a new movement. Its name: Dada. Its aim: to “get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanised, enervated.” This aim could be achieved simply by saying: “Dada.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/arts/dada-100-years-later.html
Max Ernst. Murdering Airplane. 1920. Collage. 2 1/2” x 5 1/2” (6.35 cm × 13.97 cm). Private collection.
Early last century, when the sight of a woman in trousers could still cause a flap, the spectacle of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven must have aroused hairy panic.
With her five stray dogs trailing behind her on a gilded leash, she would walk regally through Washington Square Park, wearing a
short Scottish kilt, a brassiere made from two tomato cans tied together with green string and, hanging from her neck, a wooden birdcage — with a live, chirping canary.
A Dada poet and collagist, artists’ model and troublemaker, she was called by those who knew
her simply “the Baroness.” In the late 1910’s and early 1920’s, the Baroness reigned among the intellectual avant-garde who laughed at sexual taboos and made art their revolution. But in the wildly colorful hothouse of Greenwich Village bohemia, the Baroness was the most exotic blossom of them all. “She is not a futurist,” Marcel Duchamp said. “She is the future.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/magazine/my-heart-belongs-to-dada.html
The Dada Baroness~
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/oisteanu/oisteanu5-20-02.asp
Did Marcel Duchamp steal Elsa’s urinal?~
http://ec2-79-125-124-178.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/articles/Did-Marcel-Duchamp-steal-Elsas-urinal/36155
On 5th February 1916, in the back room of a small bar in Zurich, a group of artists launched a nightclub which changed the course of modern art. Cabaret Voltaire was the home of Dada, a movement that revolutionised European culture. A century later, this historic club is still going strong.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/g8WYZb6jHWPwXtrFG6JW6G/anarchy-absurdity-dada-the-cabaret-voltaire-at-100
Greta Deses’s Dada (1967) profiles the Dada movement with live performances, film excerpts, interviews and a reenactment of a performance at the groundbreaking Cabaret Voltaire.Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco met on February 5, 1916 in Zurich with the ambitious plan of instigating nothing less than an artistic revolution. Their Cabaret Voltaire, which they founded that evening, was a combination of a pub, theater, gallery, and club. Throughout that year, they organized unpredictable events combining chaotic performances, recitations and music.
http://www.dw.com/en/how-dadaism-revolutionized-art-100-years-ago/a-19016756
Antonio Canova (1757-1822)
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/357/antonio-canova-italian-1757-1822/
Hannah Höch (1889-1978)
http://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/hannah-h%C3%B6ch
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884-1974)
http://www.thesurrealists.org/georges-ribemont-dessaignes.html
Mary (Meric) Callery (1903-1977)
http://www.ulae.com/artists/MaryCallery/
