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I agree with you, the banana in the wall WAS NOT DADA, it is dada being coopted by art-capitalism. Everybody is an artist if an artist is the person who can tape a banana to the wall. However, ONLY the artists (and financial yuppies) got the midas touch to turn a 0.15 banana into 100 k of art-investment (certificate, pretty much a bond)
I think Dada was really a product of its time, so much of its influence has permeated subsequent artistic movements and the pop culture of the last century that it's essentially impossible to create a legitimate Dadaist work, especially in our contemporary, technological, media-saturated landscape. On the surface, the performance artist who ate the $100K+ banana piece while it was being exhibited would seem to fit the bill, but even that was little more than a self-serving publicity stunt.
Saw a DaDa exhibit back in the 90's at the SF Legion of Honor. Duchamp's "Fountain" was there. What made this exceptionally hilarious was a small card directly in front of the urinal, "Do not touch".
I really liked the part about chance and the subsequent thoughts on lying. It's fascinating how such (in principle) simple ideas can challenge the notion of art, forcing fellow artists to reconsider their entire craft.
Sums up late Bob Dylan to a tee. "The box wrote it", he would say about a song, meaning he had a box full of phrases he's collected from newspapers and other sources and just stuck them together to make his lyrics. Which is also a lie, although hard to prove. 'ModBob', as fans call this period, danced on the edge of art and fraud, daring you to tell the difference.
My German language teacher back in highschool in the Netherlands always talked with consumption (spit)... He hated my ass so bad for being a huge fan of dadaism. I had to be in front of the class so i catched a little bit of spit every time he was in front of me.... the Bastard.... One day i revenged him so bad: He passed my desk and his pen dropped out of his pocket. He didn't notice, so i picked up the pen. "Entschuldigung, Sie haben etwas verloren". He turned and got right up to my face: "WASSSSSS?!?!?!?!".... My answer: "Der Krieg, zwei mahl!" and put the pen in his chestpocket.... That was the end of my german classes that year....
My parents nicknamed me "dada" when i was little and still call me it sometimes, and they would tell me about the artistic side to this name. I didn't give it much thought before but now I'm just so into Dada.
As a teenager growing up in zurich our main hangout was the cabaret voltaire, which still is a bar/cafe that hosts art and music and still is a left wing artist's hub...great place :)
You are quickly becoming one of my favourite art channels on youtube. Everything is very informative and well edited. Thank you for doing what you are doing!
So why is it so pathetically worthless. Although I guess if you are trying to push back against social norms it makes sense that you are going to create laughable and pathetic forms of art.
I have looked at, I can't say seriously researched, the history of Dada for a couple of decades.. I have never been able to understand the work but I think I understand the reasons that it came about.
Yes, it should be taught so that we realize how important it is to have standards in a society so that low IQ worthless and non beautiful art can be laughed at even more
@@TheCodgod1996Your take is 'low IQ' but valid. I couldn't imagine thinking art had to conform to anything but itself. Your ideas of something beautiful are entirely unique to you yet predictable and no art is 'worthless' if it can be experienced then it was worth that experience again something that can't be measured because we have a beautiful thing called 'individuality'.
Would you ever consider making long videos? Going deep into explanations about certain arts ? Such as an hour or so. That would be very enjoyable But either way I love your videos as I myself do art and learning about some of my idols and different paintings history is very enjoyable. So either way I'll enjoy your videos
People sometimes get upset about that toilet not being real art, and I wish they'd relax and appreciate it for what it is: funny. A famous work of art is basically just a URINAL. That's so dumb. Which is funny.
Sometimes when I repair electronics I take a look at a PCB or a cathode ray tube an think to myself that those are a form of art. I personally don't like dada art, but I can see the point of the art piece itself not being the art, but the idea of classifying and apreciating it as art being the art itself. Thinking about that make "fountain" make more sense to me... which might be a very not-dada think to do.
Except for names that everybody knows like Banksy and some ancient visits to Dia in my 20s, pretty much all my knowledge of art history is summed up by Crass album inserts and Winston Smith. So channels like this go a long way in making me feel like I'm catching up for lost time. (It's kinda like someone is playing Big A, little a in the back of my head and they're serving free drinks to anyone who shows up.)
Great video, as a music fan dada has a lot of similarities with the no wave punk movement, there´s also chance driven music "Indeterminacy" and the last words of the video reminded me of Frank Zappa´s work
We definitely can't prove that chance didn't produce such an alignment on neither of the pictures I mentioned (the second one is even less likely to happen by chance, near impossible). However, I think it's reasonable to not believe Arp's claim, don't you?
@@TheCanvasArtHistory Yes, reasonable. I think your interpretation is appealing. On the other hand, it might be that the arrangements in the collages are representations of chance that do not want to claim themselves as results of probability. We can see here symmetry, golden ratio, arrangements that are for me does not seem to be avant-garde tools. But these symmetries, ratios can be found, not only in art but in nature. And nature is the purest form of chance. I would say Arp wanted to depict chance instead of using it.
10:18 The "Dada is not an art form" quote attributed to Albert Einstein strikes me as extremely Dada. My questions are: did Einstein actually say/write that and B: what did he mean? I have a few Dada books and did some googling, but can't find anything that sheds light on either question. I suppose a true Dadaist wouldn't care one way or the other, but I'd like to believe that Einstein was simpatico with the Dada movement.
loved the video, and a lot of your work, but disagree on the final bit: crying is not necessarily a sign of "giving up". just wanna normalize all them stress-relieving tears. 💦
Hi, I disagree, partly. So you say losing hope and becoming cynical, right? Thing is, some of us are natural rebels, contrarians, we refuse to be put in society's little boxes and we don't like art boxes either. I think Dada, to me, is about being myself in a world of copies. :)
A contrarian is just as much defined by the crowd as a member of the crowd is. To speak in your terms: you have taken a copy and tilted it 90° to claim how special you are 'unlike all the others.' And it isn't even that. A quick look at your channel reveals that you seem to be writing gay romance. Wow how revolutionary to write in one of the best selling book genres (romance) (no hate but this isn't exactly unconventional). Who *isn't* oneself? Everyone is unique in a way. You aren't the special one. Everyone tries to make something of their own. Everyone is heavily defined by society and reliant upon it too.
Let's face it, the world's pretty much an absurd place, mostly because of the absurd monkeys running it. Unfortunately, that absurdity is far from funny. So what are you gonna do, laugh as you starve to death? Laugh as they burn down your house? Laugh as you discover that you are them?!
I despise DaDa art. I just find it to be self-rigthous and meaningless. It has nothing to say but 'hey, what IS art??' and this is supposed to challenge the status quo. It's like sticking a cardboard box in the ground and saying it 'really makes us question what a house is.' Sure, that's a fine thought experiment. But it's not good art.
The value of art is not defined by how hard it is to make. Is a Bob Dylan song worse than one of Beethoven’s symphonies just because it took less time to write and less people to perform?
@@trystero1729 Beethoven, Bach or Schubert are vastly superior to any contemporary music. Doesn't mean that modern music isn't enjoyable - it is - but it also is much less complex and rich in ideas, conceptions and their execution. If you want to listen closely there's a lot less there to notice in modern music compared to european classical music. Dada is like shitposting without internet. I love shitposting, but is it really this deep? No it isn't.
@@IsomerSoma i’m not expecting to change your mind on this but this is a take i only ever hear from people who are listening to the most boring, least intellectual contemporary music possible. check out pet sounds by the beach boys or ants from up there by black country, new road. there’s a ton of depth and artistic value to pop music if you listen to the right stuff
Dada basically sounds like shitposters before the internet. War is ongoing, the planet is burning, the elite don't care. May as well embrace the absurd memes.
The last point of Dada being about laughing at the absurd made me think of the emergence of the Theatre of the Absurd, a genre of plays that came about at the end of WW2 and combines humor with illogical thinking and existentialism. The most famous play is Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett, which oscillates between laughter and tears but focuses on silence. Just thought it was interesting how both world wars have had impacts on art forms and the expression of hopelessness that leans toward comedy.
Thank you for drawing our attention to this rather neglected art movement which was seminal to much of the art of the 20th century and which is still very relevant.
I agree with you, the banana in the wall WAS NOT DADA, it is dada being coopted by art-capitalism. Everybody is an artist if an artist is the person who can tape a banana to the wall. However, ONLY the artists (and financial yuppies) got the midas touch to turn a 0.15 banana into 100 k of art-investment (certificate, pretty much a bond)
I think Dada was really a product of its time, so much of its influence has permeated subsequent artistic movements and the pop culture of the last century that it's essentially impossible to create a legitimate Dadaist work, especially in our contemporary, technological, media-saturated landscape. On the surface, the performance artist who ate the $100K+ banana piece while it was being exhibited would seem to fit the bill, but even that was little more than a self-serving publicity stunt.
Kevin Nguyen and TJ Khayatan, on the other hand…true Dadaists!!
"I agree with you, the banana in the wall WAS NOT DADA," is excellent dadaist poetry
@@kvnvk8947 i think dada is alive not in photo collages and readymades but in Punkrock and shitposts
@@Olivenpaste so funny to see this just as I'm thinking that punk rock can definitely be dada :)
Saw a DaDa exhibit back in the 90's at the SF Legion of Honor. Duchamp's "Fountain" was there. What made this exceptionally hilarious was a small card directly in front of the urinal, "Do not touch".
Funny because you wouldn’t have to touch it, to use it 😂
I really liked the part about chance and the subsequent thoughts on lying. It's fascinating how such (in principle) simple ideas can challenge the notion of art, forcing fellow artists to reconsider their entire craft.
Sums up late Bob Dylan to a tee. "The box wrote it", he would say about a song, meaning he had a box full of phrases he's collected from newspapers and other sources and just stuck them together to make his lyrics. Which is also a lie, although hard to prove. 'ModBob', as fans call this period, danced on the edge of art and fraud, daring you to tell the difference.
Obvieously Defense against dark Arts
Defense against Dada Art
dada is when you stunt on your teacher by intentionally misinterpreting the assignment 😂
its the modern-day troll. it might just provide a solution too.
My German language teacher back in highschool in the Netherlands always talked with consumption (spit)... He hated my ass so bad for being a huge fan of dadaism. I had to be in front of the class so i catched a little bit of spit every time he was in front of me.... the Bastard....
One day i revenged him so bad: He passed my desk and his pen dropped out of his pocket. He didn't notice, so i picked up the pen. "Entschuldigung, Sie haben etwas verloren". He turned and got right up to my face: "WASSSSSS?!?!?!?!".... My answer: "Der Krieg, zwei mahl!" and put the pen in his chestpocket....
That was the end of my german classes that year....
@@arnoldvldWenn nur der totale Sieg gekommen wäre, wäre unsere Welt jetzt nicht so dunkel.
LMFAOOOO NOOOOO@@arnoldvld
Mis-dada.
dada teacher being hit by what?
The end of this video was wonderful and the Beckett quote comes to mind: "I cannot go on. I will go on."
So dada was like the one of the first memes. Got it.
My parents nicknamed me "dada" when i was little and still call me it sometimes, and they would tell me about the artistic side to this name. I didn't give it much thought before but now I'm just so into Dada.
We call my young brother Dada too,but simply because it was his first "word"😂
@@ngawadszulu That was the same with me too!
As a teenager growing up in zurich our main hangout was the cabaret voltaire, which still is a bar/cafe that hosts art and music and still is a left wing artist's hub...great place :)
A hangout for low IQ commies... got it.
You are quickly becoming one of my favourite art channels on youtube. Everything is very informative and well edited. Thank you for doing what you are doing!
^^^^
I love Dada, it’s just pure life to me. Unapologetically lively
So why is it so pathetically worthless. Although I guess if you are trying to push back against social norms it makes sense that you are going to create laughable and pathetic forms of art.
I love this video bc as much as I learned about Dada I still am unsure about Dada as a whole
I have looked at, I can't say seriously researched, the history of Dada for a couple of decades.. I have never been able to understand the work but I think I understand the reasons that it came about.
dada !
DaDA should be taught in every art class at least once so people can stop caring about looks so much
Yes, it should be taught so that we realize how important it is to have standards in a society so that low IQ worthless and non beautiful art can be laughed at even more
@@TheCodgod1996Yes laugh, it's what it's made for (IQ is for idiots ironically).
@@TheCodgod1996Your take is 'low IQ' but valid. I couldn't imagine thinking art had to conform to anything but itself. Your ideas of something beautiful are entirely unique to you yet predictable and no art is 'worthless' if it can be experienced then it was worth that experience again something that can't be measured because we have a beautiful thing called 'individuality'.
@@TheCodgod1996lol
"Right before your eyes, we pull laughter from the skies
And he laughs until he cries then he dies then he dies"
Karn Evil 9 - ELP
Incredible video as always, can’t wait to see cover more Dada artists in the future!
I don't think crying is giving up.
You're definitely right on that. Crying is a healthy response that relieves stress and supports us to go on.
You are making me love art history, thanks bro
Dada is shitposting and I love it
this was one of the clearest explanations of dadaism I've ever seen
This is a beautiful dive into dada. Thank you for sharing this with the world.
Luke, I am your Dada.
Memes are dada of the present day.
I think the Dadaists of old would love the AI art revolution currently taking place.
one of my favourite art movements
I just binge watched Several Circles, I'm probably about to binge watch this channel, and I would appreciate recommendations of similar channels.
Never heard of Dada until I read 1996 novel "Rats Saw God"
Would you ever consider making long videos? Going deep into explanations about certain arts ? Such as an hour or so.
That would be very enjoyable
But either way I love your videos as I myself do art and learning about some of my idols and different paintings history is very enjoyable. So either way I'll enjoy your videos
Love your vids!
People sometimes get upset about that toilet not being real art, and I wish they'd relax and appreciate it for what it is: funny. A famous work of art is basically just a URINAL. That's so dumb. Which is funny.
this was really well made and i apprecaiet your effort
the way the circle turns
Sometimes when I repair electronics I take a look at a PCB or a cathode ray tube an think to myself that those are a form of art. I personally don't like dada art, but I can see the point of the art piece itself not being the art, but the idea of classifying and apreciating it as art being the art itself. Thinking about that make "fountain" make more sense to me... which might be a very not-dada think to do.
DADA is still alive.
At least I know something for tomorrows paper, lol
Man found you last night and I love your work ty
Except for names that everybody knows like Banksy and some ancient visits to Dia in my 20s, pretty much all my knowledge of art history is summed up by Crass album inserts and Winston Smith. So channels like this go a long way in making me feel like I'm catching up for lost time. (It's kinda like someone is playing Big A, little a in the back of my head and they're serving free drinks to anyone who shows up.)
Great video, as a music fan dada has a lot of similarities with the no wave punk movement, there´s also chance driven music "Indeterminacy" and the last words of the video reminded me of Frank Zappa´s work
Laughing in response to hopelessness. Damn guess I was into Dada without even realizing it.
Lmao. DaDa the art subtype of mental breakdowns
much love
Brilliant narration!Thank you so much.
dada feels a lot like camp.
i dig it
How can you (we) prove that chance can't produce that alignment on the picture in this particular case mentioned?
We definitely can't prove that chance didn't produce such an alignment on neither of the pictures I mentioned (the second one is even less likely to happen by chance, near impossible).
However, I think it's reasonable to not believe Arp's claim, don't you?
@@TheCanvasArtHistory Yes, reasonable. I think your interpretation is appealing.
On the other hand, it might be that the arrangements in the collages are representations of chance that do not want to claim themselves as results of probability.
We can see here symmetry, golden ratio, arrangements that are for me
does not seem to be avant-garde tools.
But these symmetries, ratios can be found, not only in art but in nature. And nature is the purest form of chance.
I would say Arp wanted to depict chance instead of using it.
this is BEAUTIFUL!
I Am DaDa , This Is A Great Video , and Yes, i Agree With Your Conclusion and preceptipn of "DaDa" at the end of the video .
Dada in Farsi means brother
the essence of Dada is 'a pox on all your houses'
I NEED TO KNOW WHICH FONTS YOU USED 😍
Dada is onomatopoeia. Like when you're having a convo, leave out some stuff dadadada y'know so on and so forth.
Thank you.
i really need the hannah höch video!
This video got the Pink Panther song stuck in my head
As someone who’s new to art expositions and has never heard of Dadaism, the first 3mins of the video sounded like someone expounding on a crack meme
I think dada inspired albert camus a lot on absurdism
thank you!
DADA/SURREALISMSA ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Great video, i subscribe
Take a drink every time the word Dada is mentioned😂
Maybe it's time dada had a revival
the ending really made me think, can we (and perhaps should we) call memes a sort of dada?
heyy could you make a video about turner for next video? thank youu 😂😍 love your videos!
10:18 The "Dada is not an art form" quote attributed to Albert Einstein strikes me as extremely Dada. My questions are: did Einstein actually say/write that and B: what did he mean? I have a few Dada books and did some googling, but can't find anything that sheds light on either question. I suppose a true Dadaist wouldn't care one way or the other, but I'd like to believe that Einstein was simpatico with the Dada movement.
Look up FEDERICO HURTADO. Dada artist from Argentina. Cheers
I was gonna say something radical but I forgot
Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany.
Well there you have it, pretty self explanatory.😊
I feel like I just wandered into a huge social hall, under dressed and just as confused as everyone else how I got here.
Seconds of blank slides？
So, punk is dada
DADA ARTISTS ARE NEEDED NOW
I love dada but what are the odds that dadaists were just fucking with us
So basically Cruelty Squad
Laughing at the absurd, or laughing at the deadly serious in order to render in absurd?
It’s an old meme, obviously.
i still dont know what it is
loved the video, and a lot of your work, but disagree on the final bit: crying is not necessarily a sign of "giving up". just wanna normalize all them stress-relieving tears. 💦
visited by LENTE
Anglophone: L.H.O.O.Q huh... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Francophone: HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!
BBanksy definitely doesn't belong in that category...😮
today i realize that Punk rock is just a copycat of Dada
"no wave"
Or reinterpretation perhaps
today you realize that Punk rock is not a copycat of Dada
brother whyd they call it that
Well Ill be a dada.......
Hi, I disagree, partly. So you say losing hope and becoming cynical, right? Thing is, some of us are natural rebels, contrarians, we refuse to be put in society's little boxes and we don't like art boxes either. I think Dada, to me, is about being myself in a world of copies. :)
A contrarian is just as much defined by the crowd as a member of the crowd is. To speak in your terms: you have taken a copy and tilted it 90° to claim how special you are 'unlike all the others.' And it isn't even that. A quick look at your channel reveals that you seem to be writing gay romance. Wow how revolutionary to write in one of the best selling book genres (romance) (no hate but this isn't exactly unconventional).
Who *isn't* oneself? Everyone is unique in a way. You aren't the special one. Everyone tries to make something of their own. Everyone is heavily defined by society and reliant upon it too.
Well Dada is my last name
soooooooo reaal
Were I a Dadaist, I would want to be called a fartist
Dad is so evil. It has ripped beauty from this world
*war is so evil. It has ripped beauty from this world.
Dada is dead, long live dada
PICABIA went too far in his definition... Brevity is the soul of DADA.
My dada went out to buy milk
Absurdism in a nutshell
Let's face it, the world's pretty much an absurd place, mostly because of the absurd monkeys running it. Unfortunately, that absurdity is far from funny. So what are you gonna do, laugh as you starve to death? Laugh as they burn down your house? Laugh as you discover that you are them?!
I despise DaDa art. I just find it to be self-rigthous and meaningless. It has nothing to say but 'hey, what IS art??' and this is supposed to challenge the status quo. It's like sticking a cardboard box in the ground and saying it 'really makes us question what a house is.' Sure, that's a fine thought experiment. But it's not good art.
Ask what dada means to Indians then u don't have to make videos
_This_ is not for me, I prefer real art that takes years of practice to master.
Then go and do that
The value of art is not defined by how hard it is to make. Is a Bob Dylan song worse than one of Beethoven’s symphonies just because it took less time to write and less people to perform?
Dada is as much "real" art as any other form of artistic expression.
@@trystero1729 Beethoven, Bach or Schubert are vastly superior to any contemporary music. Doesn't mean that modern music isn't enjoyable - it is - but it also is much less complex and rich in ideas, conceptions and their execution. If you want to listen closely there's a lot less there to notice in modern music compared to european classical music.
Dada is like shitposting without internet. I love shitposting, but is it really this deep? No it isn't.
@@IsomerSoma i’m not expecting to change your mind on this but this is a take i only ever hear from people who are listening to the most boring, least intellectual contemporary music possible. check out pet sounds by the beach boys or ants from up there by black country, new road. there’s a ton of depth and artistic value to pop music if you listen to the right stuff
Are we cool yet?
everyone was on SCPs dick when it was poppin back in the mid 2010s. get a hobby instead of quoting from shit that has NOTHING TO DO WITH DADA
Dada basically sounds like shitposters before the internet. War is ongoing, the planet is burning, the elite don't care. May as well embrace the absurd memes.
The last point of Dada being about laughing at the absurd made me think of the emergence of the Theatre of the Absurd, a genre of plays that came about at the end of WW2 and combines humor with illogical thinking and existentialism. The most famous play is Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett, which oscillates between laughter and tears but focuses on silence. Just thought it was interesting how both world wars have had impacts on art forms and the expression of hopelessness that leans toward comedy.
Just a bunch of dudes trolling everyone before it was cool
Thank you for drawing our attention to this rather neglected art movement which was seminal to much of the art of the 20th century and which is still very relevant.
your channel is amazing man! wish i could support you but i live in iran. anways, thanks for the amazing content
When the moon hits your eye
like a big pizza pie, that's aDada