Professor Winkler
Eng. 262-201
10 September 2012
Assignment 1.4
dadaism and Surrealism
Tzara, Tristan; Romania; (1896-1963)
Tzara was married to the Swedish poet and creative person, Greta Knutson
To bemuse a poppingist Poem
Post WWI, during cover of anti-art, non-sensical Dadaism and Surrealism
Theme: To randomly be an artist; to by chance create meaningless, yet meaningful art.
To Make a Dadaist Poem
Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
film from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.
curb away the article.
Next care broady cut out separately of the words that make up this article and put them totally in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy sacredly in the order in which they left the bag.
The poem leave resemble you.
And there you arean infinitely, original author of pretty sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.
By: Tristan Tzara
As one art movement led into the next, romanticism to Modernism to Dadaism and Surrealism, artists, writers as well as painters and such, came to take exception art as it was and had been known Hans Arp, a French artist spoke of Dadaism, saying Dada wished to destroy the hoaxes of reason and to catch and unreasoned order. This poem of Tzara does just that. Chaos is the chosen path. Reason was existence challenged at this time, post WWI. It is said that there may be no known or sensical beginning of the word Dada, perhaps being randomly chosen; ironically, just as Tzara instructs one to randomly create art, yet saying that in doing so, you, the artist are sensible; quite the paradox, I bump! This was a time of seeing things in an individual way, rejecting favorable values and mores.
Marcel Duchamp, a French artist, certainly try and was highly influential in this movement of the time. He variegated a Mona Lisa with a mustache, and created a piece called The Fountain, in which he chose to use a pseudonym, which was...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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