By Marta Ragozzino
Dada or Dadaism was once an paintings flow of the ecu avant-garde within the early twentieth century. Many declare Dada started in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916, spreading to Berlin almost immediately thereafter however the peak of latest York Dada was once the yr earlier than, in 1915. to cite Dona Budd's The Language of artwork Knowledge.
Dada used to be born out of adverse response to the horrors of worldwide warfare I. This overseas circulation was once all started by means of a gaggle of artists and poets linked to the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Dada rejected cause and common sense, prizing nonsense, irrationality and instinct. The foundation of the identify Dada is uncertain; a few think that it's a nonsensical note. Others keep that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara's and Marcel Janco's widespread use of the phrases "da, da," which means "yes, yes" within the Romanian language. one other idea says that the identify "Dada" got here in the course of a gathering of the crowd while a paper knife caught right into a French-German dictionary occurred to indicate to 'dada', a French observe for 'hobbyhorse'.
Sommario:
ARTE? NO GRAZIE
Dadarebus
L'ARTE DELLA PROVOCAZIONE
Vogliamo opere incomprese (Tristan Tzara)
LA CULLA DI DADA
Due o tre modi in step with distruggere l'arte
DADA PARLA TEDESCO
I dadaisti
Cronologia
Bibliografia
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Her father, Donald, supported her youthful ambitions and gave her a set of oil paints; her first oil painting was a fanciful reverie of a boy on a log playing with his sailboat. Drawn completely from her imagination, the setting is bucolic and shows a red barn, lotus blossoms, and a pond like those that surrounded her family home. Her first sale came as an eighth-grader. While visiting relatives in the resort town of Sea Girt, New Jersey, Whyte did a pen-and-ink sketch of a local inn. Her aunt presented the drawing to the innkeeper, negotiating a price of twenty dollars, which delighted the teenager.
Some works take time to evolve. Like small seeds the paintings might not come to fruition until several years later, after there has been ample time for germination. To my mind watercolor is the only medium that matches the speed and the nebulousness of these stories as they unfold. ” Little Love, 2004 Watercolor on paper, 22 x 24 inches Private collection 42 Rooster, 2010 Watercolor on paper, 20 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches Private collection 43 Steam Iron, 2002 Watercolor on paper, 27 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches Collection of the Greenville County Museum of Art 44 Persimmon, 2012 Watercolor on paper, 40 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches Collection of the artist 45 Abyss, 2009 Watercolor on paper, 30 3/4 x 23 1/4 inches Private collection 46 Ferry, 2008 Watercolor, 8 3/4 x 10 inches Private collection 47 A Lady Bug’s View of the World, 1970 Oil on canvas, 17 x 23 3/4 inches Private collection 48 M ary Whyte grew up in rural Bainbridge, Ohio, about twenty-five miles east of Cleveland, her actual birthplace in 1953.
She later acknowledged that she probably sold only one of these early endeavors, but she learned a lifelong lesson. “I started painting people in watercolor when I was in high school. My first attempts were predictably muddy and overworked, but I was enthralled with both the power and delicacy of the medium. At the time I had no intention of being a portrait painter, but after I graduated from art school folks began asking me for paintings of their families. I soon discovered that I truly love painting people, and if someone was actually going to pay me to paint them, what could be better?