Artists
A founder of dada, in his most famous artwork he recited gibberish on stage while dressed like a magical bishop.
Who is Hugo Ball?
This form of dadaist art objects asks "what is art and who decides?"
What are readymades?
This artistic movement was a catalyst for Italian fascism.
What is Futurism?
This movement cited this line by Comte de Lautréamont as the ultimate definition of beauty: "As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing-machine and an umbrella on an operating table"
What is surrealism?
This is a theory and method of analysis which views history as a class struggle between the capitalist class and the working class.
What is Marxism?
He took sequential, scientific photos of movement.
Who is Edweard Muybridge?
This painting employs “the gaze” through the fetishization of a Tahitian girl.
What is Gauguin’s The Spirit of the Dead Watching?
This catastrophic event directly shaped the fractured content, tone, and political fury behind movements like Dada and Surrealism.
What is WW1?
Rapid industrial transformations in the early 20th century heavily influenced movements that celebrated speed and industry, such as Futurism and this Russian movement focused on utilitarian construction.
What is Russian constructivism?
This concept describes the way a viewer looks at an artwork, including how power, gender and subjectivity shape that act of looking.
What is the gaze?
The famous Renaissance painting that Manet was subverting and critiquing in Olympia
What is Titian’s Venus of Urbino?
Kazimir Malevich's first suprematist painting, which he described as the zero point of painting and the start of a new, non-objective art form
What is The Black Square?
This form ofpublic declaration announces an artistic movement's intentions, visual aesthetic and political ideology.
What is a manifesto?
This anti-art movement used absurdity and irony to aggressively reject the bourgeois logic that led society into war.
What is Dada?
This psychoanalytic concept describes how a younger generation of modern artists rebelled against the artistic father figures who came before them
What is the Oedipal revolt?
Marcel Duchamp submitted a porcelain urinal titled Fountain under this fictional pseudonym in 1917
What is R Mutt?
Moving away from traditional painting, artists in movements like Dada and Constructivism embraced this new medium that incorporates found images and newspaper clippings
What is photomontage / collage
By shifting the focus of art from physical craftsmanship and retinal pleasure to this realm, Duchamp fundamentally changed the definition of modern art forever.
What is conceptual / intellectually focused art?
Besides being a pioneer of Dada, Duchamp was heavily associated with this movement that preceded it, which sought to bypass rational thought by exploring the dream world and the unconscious.
What is surrealism?
Benjamin used this term for the unique presence and authority associated with an artwork's particular existence in time and space.
What is aura?
German Dada artist best known for her political photomontage work such as "Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany"
Who is Hannah Höch?
This Cubist work by Duchamp drew inspiration from futurism and obscured the body, showcasing its physical movement, rather than its sexuality.
What is Nude Descending a Staircase, (No. 2)?
This 1909 text called war "the only cure for the world"
What is the manifesto of Futurism?
This German term describes an artwork that combines multiple art forms to create a single, unified, and cohesive whole.
What is Gesamtkunstwerk?
Benjamin was deeply concerned with how mass media and mechanical reproduction could be leveraged for political ends, a process he described as the ____ of politics
What is the aestheticization of politics ?