Cabaret Voltaire

Cabaret Voltaire was a nightclub created on February 1, 1916. It was founded by Hugo Ball for the artistic and political movement in Zurich (Switzerland.) It hosted events to do with the art movement called "Dada."

 

When Hugo Ball preformed his cabaret poem "Karawane" in cabaret Voltaire it brought in a new term of surrealism.

 

this is Hugo Ball:

 

This is Hugo Ball's famous Dada poem "Karawane."


jolifanto bambla o falli bambla
großiga m’pfa habla horem
egiga goramen
higo bloiko russula huju
hollaka hollala
anlogo bung
blago bung blago bung
bosso fataka
ü üü ü
schampa wulla wussa olobo
hej tatta gorem
eschige zunbada
wulubu ssubudu uluwu ssubudu
–umf
kusa gauma
ba–umf

 

Notes on "This is Modern Art"

 

• Dali was a romantic torcher artist who was later known as a betrayer the rest of the artists.
• soft self portrait which was a self portrait with bacon
• Dali was famous, many people had his books and paintings, when he was so famous he went to America but they rejected him thinking he was only a publicity speaker
• one of the most famous commercial artists
• he followed his own style nobody else.
• he was very money orientated
• he was very outrageous and wasn't abstract but strange
• the anxiety's of publicity, money, fame and hype in modern art was around just not as emphasised
• Andre Breton called Salvador Dali "Avida Dollars" which translates at "greedy money"
• Dali bought Al Capone's Cadillac through the amount of money he made.

 

 

 

Group discussion.

 

• he made sense of the strange world

Un Chien Andalou

• black and white mute film
• uses other props to direct the real the wrong way
• used a cows eye to replace a humans eye to slit open
• guy fell off a bike and hit head on curb and died
• woman takes his clothes and lays them out on his bed to memorise him
• he appears in the room with a hole in his hand and ants crawling out of it
• she has hairy armpits which changes to another shot which leads to a hand severed off
• hand shot and bike man and referenced into 2 different pieces
• the bike man turns rapey after he sees another woman being hit by a car
• pulls 2 pianos with dead cows on towards woman into a room
• two men are attached to the rope being pulled
• guy gets nervous whilst in bed when another guy walks in and picks him out of bed
• Throws all his dressage out of the window and removes all identity of the man in bed
• both men are the same guy which could be referenced to the guy being crazy and having two persona's, a good side and an evil side.
• good guy gets shot and jumps to a woods shot with him dying
• shot jumps back to woman and man in house with a moth which has a skull pattern on its back
• they skip to a beach shot through a door with a man outside on the beach and the woman approaches him
• they both find the box from the guy at the start on the beach broken with the guys dressage attached to it.
• The film had no story line but the plot was their to confuse you.

Meta Physics

Giorgio de Chirico

 

 

He was an Italian artist, sculptor and theatre designer. Born in Greece in 1888, and was later died in 1978. Studied and painting at the Athens polytechnic in 1903-06 for 18 months at the Munich.   

 

Rene Magritte

 

Rene Magritte is a famous Belgium artist who was born in 1898 in a town called Lessines. He Studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels 1916-18. Which then decided to settle down in Brussels. He made a living by designing wallpaper and drawing fashion advertisements. 

Non Sequitur

 

Non sequitur is a formal argument which concludes that it does not follow from its premises. In Non sequitur it could be true or false, but the argument is based on a mistaken belief. This is because there is a disconnection between the premise and the conclusion. It can be to do with misconception of numerous things such ad day/night cycles, water and air, sun and earth etc.

Surrealism

 

Surrealism is a style of art and literature which originated in the 1920's which was in the 20th century. stressing the images that doesn't make sense and has no reason of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploits of chance effect, unexpected and juxtapositions etc.

 

 

Surrealism was launched in Paris in 1924 by French poet Andre Breton. Andre was strongly influenced by the theories by Sigmund Freud. The founder of physcoanalysis.

 

No type of surrealism images are the same and all different in some sort of way. Some can be quite oblique but then others can be extremely abstract, dream-like or automatic. Images such as: