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When Art Stopped Caring About Humanity (Dada)
National Review Online ^
| February 25, 2015
| David Pryce-Jones
Posted on 02/25/2015 8:36:05 AM PST by C19fan
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Geneva, birth place of Dada, will try to cash in on art tourism dollars which is probably going to cause Dada artists to roll around in their graves. If you want a very nice readable overview of Modernism I would recommend Peter Gay's "Modernism: The Lure of Heresy". One of major thesis in Gay's book is only in liberal societies with a large bourgeois class could Modernism, many of whom railed against the middle and upper classes, have the breathing space and financial support to thrive. My take is there were experiments against the traditional way of doing things that were made many failed but some with great success like the Impressionists, Cubists, and composers like Stravinsky. Some of the modernists like Kandinsky and Malevich were very affirming of the spiritual quality of man. The fact that Dada was dead by 1930 says something.
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02/25/2015 8:36:05 AM PST
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C19fan
To: C19fan
If you can't raise the bridge, lower the river. If you can't hurdle the bar, lower it. If you have no talent, change the rules of the art form until you become an artist.
It's interesting that the post-Modernist trend is coming full circle. Read Jurgen Habermas's theory of post-post-Modernism, in which he essentially admits that a world without any transcendent standards is liable to be a hell on earth.
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02/25/2015 8:40:46 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: C19fan
The statue outside the Orange County Museum of Art perfectly illustrates the modern artist's attitude towards the public:
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02/25/2015 8:43:37 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Combined with the inhumane brutalist structure.
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02/25/2015 8:44:38 AM PST
by
C19fan
Only Four days to go until March!
FReepers, Let's GIT_R_DONE!
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02/25/2015 8:50:39 AM PST
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RedMDer
(Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
To: C19fan; Republicanprofessor
dada ping![]( http://bradnecykteaching.com/brad/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/dada_newyork_01.jpg)
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02/25/2015 8:59:07 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: C19fan
the inhumane brutalist structure. That's the sort of building a telephone company would erect to house a remote, unmanned switching station. Go back far enough (late 1800s, maybe not even that far) and even the houses for unmanned equipment had some elegance to them.
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02/25/2015 9:02:32 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: C19fan
Anti-art has since become the post-modern entirety of the art establishment.
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02/25/2015 9:07:47 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: C19fan
“Refers to the tail of a sacred cow”
Close, but no ceegar. It refers to the part of the sacred cow under the tail.
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02/25/2015 9:08:24 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: C19fan
There is very little ART today; most of it can be classified under communist propaganda.
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02/25/2015 9:23:58 AM PST
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PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: C19fan
![](https://artisticdrama.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/20130121-122609.jpg)
![](http://prifx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Picasso-Famous-Modern-Abstract-Art-Paintings-Wallpaper-for-Living-Room-Wall-Stickers-Murals.jpg)
'Nuff said.
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02/25/2015 9:32:47 AM PST
by
Dr. Thorne
(The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Roman 13:12)
To: C19fan
Of them all, James Joyce was the only one with real talent, but Finnegans Wake, that unreadable effusion, shows how Dada had got to him. Joyce and Dada are good examples of the disintegrated mode of thought. This anti integration mentality is the end result of Kantianism. It rejects all previous approaches to art, such as classicist,Romanticist, and Naturalist alike.In politics, this mode of thought leads to nihilistic libtard policies such as egalitarianism, social justice,justice as fairness,and environmentalism, which will eventually destroy prosperity.
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02/25/2015 9:50:22 AM PST
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: Dr. Thorne
Old Pablo was one of the great Modernist womanizers, and used Cubism to dismember the ladies he was attempting to discard into the rubbish heap. Degenerate Moderns by E. Michael Jones is spellbinding.
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02/25/2015 10:04:00 AM PST
by
jobim
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To: jobim
"Old Pablo was one of the great Modernist womanizers, and used Cubism to dismember the ladies he was attempting to discard into the rubbish heap." The other bit about Pablo and the other Painting Masters of that time (Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, etc.) was that photography was becoming popular and painting realistic human and still life and landscape works was quickly being upstaged by the new technology. So they realized they had to do something unique or become "old hat". So then you get Impressionism, Cubism etc.
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02/25/2015 10:23:50 AM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: jobim
I disagree. Picasso was a sexist user of women, but I think sometimes the distortion in his works showed his love of all the erotic parts of a woman, shown all at once, rather than his dislike of women.
The analysis of his pre-cubist Demoiselles d’Avignon, shown a few posts above, would take too long here. Again, it is rather sexist, but it is also strongly painted and revolutionary in terms of space.
Remember, the camera had been invented in 1839, and from that point on, artists were free to be much more subjective in terms of style because they did not have to be tied to realism any more. Abstraction is a fascinating study, but not one to be done quickly.
To: C19fan
What unfortunately is lso happening, with all the socialist emphasis on postmodernism and political theorizing in art, is that the graduate students and curators nowadays are driven by political theory instead of visual analysis. They don’t know how to look at paintings formally and tend to see all styles equally because they can’t analyze the difference between a strong use of form and content and weak socialist drivel.
To: C19fan
My definition of art, “If it’s something I could do, it ain’t art.”
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02/25/2015 11:00:46 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: C19fan
I was never fond of Dada... but I do like surrealism.
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02/25/2015 11:02:28 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
I was never fond of Dada![](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AG9OvVYvviQ/hqdefault.jpg)
"That's two D's, two A's....and one gun!"
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02/25/2015 11:04:47 AM PST
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dfwgator
To: Republicanprofessor
Are you familiar with Jones’s thesis? He compiles a chronology of Picasso’s philandering and attaches it to contemporaneous paintings to find the correlation between discarded mistresses and their appearance on canvas.
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02/25/2015 12:07:14 PM PST
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jobim
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