Dadaism!!

Possibly one of the most unique types of art you will come across in history. You'll find most of it done in the 1910s to 1920s and started in Switzerland. It gave a very different meaning to art, and it's that is all phrased up into a question, "Who said it has to have meaning?" and that's what Tristan Tzara said and it's what went. He believed art should be whatever you make it, although the form the dadist made their art was did not take to well with the public. Many found the art offensive due to it's so-called mockery of "real" art. Not only was it an anti-meaning type deal, but it also had an anti-war aspect to it that really shot them up to fame.

Dada Artists include:
Tzara
Duchamp
Hoch
Schuuitters
Ernst
Arp

For more information on Dadaism and the artists visit this website: http://wwar.com/masters/movements/dadaism.html

Interwar Art Movements

Getting back into the "real" art, when we look into the interwar art era what do we see? Numerous art movements that have affected todays society. Lets start with the innovator of them all, Modernism:

1916-1940
The principles of Modernism were to keep the artist's right to freedom of choice in style. Artists also complained that paintings should not always have to be a literal representation but give actual meaning. In a sense, it was revolting against the present society.

The ideas of Modernism soon led to various other movements for example; Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, Precisionism, Surrealism, Bauhaus and Art Deco.

In following posts, I will be going in depth on each one of these.

Art Form?

How would you describe art?

Would art include music? how about poetry? Recently, I have not only been keeping to the epitomy of art: paintings. I have also been working on poetry and how art can be incorporated into that, perhaps it initially is. Here is a poem that I made back in 2007 called Sonnet Hymn:

Music comes in many shapes and sizes

from Beethoven, Mozart to 50-Cent

and in every song there are surprises

and you'll find yourself saying time well spent

Not only do they spark your emotions

They will alter your personality

They can even calm the raging oceans

and save you from sentimentality

some people say music taints the soul

well I say its revolutionary

Something that's definitely worth the toll

So music is evolutionary

Listen to it, eat it, sleep it, dream it

Now leave me to my music and split

Now you probably noticed that this was a sonnet, spite the name of the song, and the main message was about just enjoying music. I went ahead and proved myself wrong that there is no vise-versa to the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words" because words can also create a plethora of pictures. With that, I present you my digital art piece, interpreted from my poem