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Dada and Surrealism
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Dada and Surrealism
Anyone have any interest in these movements and their ideas?
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RE: Dada and Surrealism
Not a soul.
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#3
RE: Dada and Surrealism
I just like the art, particularly Escher and Dali.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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RE: Dada and Surrealism
In an aesthetic way. I enjoy a lot of artwork, stories, and movies with surrealism. But I am not too sure what Dadaism is, and I feel a supreme lack of confidence in having an academic discussion about this.

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RE: Dada and Surrealism
I think life is absurd and surreal, so yeah, I respect Dada and Surrealism as genres.

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Beauty will be convulsive...

These movements present a mindset that cultivated the avant garde experimentation of the early 20th century. Both began as rejections of the status quo orthodoxy. This way of thinking produced some wonderful artwork - Picasso and De Chirico and Matisse, Joyce, Eliot, Josephine Baker, Jellyroll Morton, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong..... all spawned from the same stuff. The mindset represents freedom, or at least takes the rules less seriously. Lots of cool works in the subgenres.
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‘I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like.’ - Orson Welles

I don’t mind absurdism, surrealism, Dadaism, and the like (some of it is fun to look at), but it doesn’t impact me as much as realism.

This

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doesn’t do as much for me as this

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Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: Dada and Surrealism
It "does" nothing for me aesthetically, ... it's interesting in a sense, and I understand it's "art".
But I tend to be very "limited" (picky) as to what I would say is "beautiful".

Great question.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell  Popcorn

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RE: Dada and Surrealism
I think the thing with dada and surrealism is the philosophy rather than the art itself. Dada especially wasn't trying to be aesthetic or attractive or good.

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