2. DADA
• Began as a protest to the horrors of WWI
• Dadaists believed that the horrors of war were caused by traditional values
• Dada was a nonsense word that became a rallying cry with an
ambiguous meaning
5. Marcel Duchamp
• A slap to traditional
standard of beauty
• LHOOQ-translates
to “she has a hot
tail”
• Controversial
“readymade” art
was often just an
altered object
nce he signed a snow shovel
and gave it a name and that
was his art piece!
6. Surrealism
• These artist did not like the modern reliance on science
• They focused on the importance of dreams, fantasies, and
hallucinations
• They were also heavily influenced by the psychology of Sigmund Freud
9. Salvador Dali
• Painted his nightmares
• Highly realistic yet improbable
• Extremely high academic technique of untraditional subject matter
• It is said that Salvador Dali would sleep holding a spoon over a pan and
when he would inevitably drop the spoon, he would wake up mid dream
and be able to use those images in his paintings
12. Latin Amercian Modernism
• Art began to reflect Afro-Brazilian traditions, Cubism, abstraction,
and there was often interdisciplinary art form combined
• Frida Khalo
• Was adopted by the surrealists
• Her style was surreal, but had strong roots in the Folk art of Mexico
14. American Regionalism
• Coincided with the depression era
• People were relatively indifferent to art at this time
• Local subject matter
• These artists were using everyday people and places as their subject matter
16. American Gothic
• Crisp and realistic in style
• Grant Wood was having little success in Paris as a painter, so he
returned to his hometown in Midwest America
• He wanted to capture the unique character of the people and land and
how they lived
• Inspired by a house built by a local carpenter in what he thought was a
rendition of Gothic architecture
