Dadaism And Futurism: The Art Movement
In this essay I will be exploring the contrast and comparison between the way in which the art movement, Dadaism and Futurism reacted to the War. It is evident that Dada and Futurism have much in common in terms of their rejection to the past. However, one might argue that the Dada movement is anti-war and anti-establishment. It was a response to World War I and the way it destroyed the idea of individualism and mechanized human beings. However, Futurism almost revered war and was influenced by machinery, speed and nationalism. Futurism opposes the past in order to embrace the future as they celebrated the advances in modernity, technology and machines. The futurist movement was marked by a close link between art and physical struggle. Three
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Both Futurism and Dada shared a disdain for tradition. Dada outlived Futurism because it didn’t have the same weakness of Futurism, as they became a classic example of rebellion, which was shunned by misplaced idealism. Nonetheless, the Dadaists themselves began to loath the movement because of how the art was always inferior to the emotion, rejection, alienation and anger (Freydis 2001). Dada and Futurism were both influenced by World War I in different ways. Dada was an anti-art movement and the artists were changing the way art had been interpreted by people. It also started as a movement because of the feelings of despair and struggle during the time of the war. Futurism aimed to glorify and celebrate war and violence. Futurism, being a movement that coincided with the advancement of technology; it was greatly influenced by machinery, automobiles and ideas of speed and power. Technology was seen as the prime catalyst for progress. The juxtaposition of Futurism and Dada not only shows how World War I had a powerful influence on art, but also the extremely different ways in which war was looked at and expressed. As the French-Russian artist Marc Chagall states, “The war was another plastic work that totally absorbed us, which reformed our forms, destroyed the lines, and gave a new look to the
Both Futurism and Dada shared a disdain for tradition. Dada outlived Futurism because it didn’t have the same weakness of Futurism, as they became a classic example of rebellion, which was shunned by misplaced idealism. Nonetheless, the Dadaists themselves began to loath the movement because of how the art was always inferior to the emotion, rejection, alienation and anger (Freydis 2001). Dada and Futurism were both influenced by World War I in different ways. Dada was an anti-art movement and the artists were changing the way art had been interpreted by people. It also started as a movement because of the feelings of despair and struggle during the time of the war. Futurism aimed to glorify and celebrate war and violence. Futurism, being a movement that coincided with the advancement of technology; it was greatly influenced by machinery, automobiles and ideas of speed and power. Technology was seen as the prime catalyst for progress. The juxtaposition of Futurism and Dada not only shows how World War I had a powerful influence on art, but also the extremely different ways in which war was looked at and expressed. As the French-Russian artist Marc Chagall states, “The war was another plastic work that totally absorbed us, which reformed our forms, destroyed the lines, and gave a new look to the