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WWI
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DaDa Movement
Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I, and the nationalism, and rationalism, which many thought had brought war about. It is a movement often cited even today for ideas around chance and the unexpected within art. Influenced by ideas and innovations from several early avant-gardes - its output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting and collage. -
Untitled (Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)
ans Arp made a series of collages based on chance, where he would stand above a sheet of paper, dropping squares of contrasting colored paper on the larger sheet's surface, and then gluing the squares wherever they fell onto the page. The art could then provoke a more visceral reaction, like fortune telling from I-Ching coins, which Arp was interested in. Apparently, this technique arose when Arp became frustrated by attempts to compose more formal geometric arrangements, (Gale, p.63). Arp's cha -
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Cold war
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Neo-DaDaist Movement
Unlike the militant declarations of Dada artists, Neo-Dada artists provoked through covert strategies more suitable to the cold war climate.Encouraging the shift toward the viewer as part of the artwork, many Neo-Dada artists adhered to a notion that the viewer's interpretation of a work - not the artist's intent - determined its meaning. This was emphasized through the use of chance, found objects, and mass media, which placedthe focus on the viewer's reading of the piece. -
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Happenings Movement
A main component of Happenings was the involvement of the viewer. Each instance a Happening occurred the viewer was used to add in an element of chance so, every time a piece was performed or exhibited it would never be the same as the previous time. Unlike preceding works of art which were, by definition, static, Happenings could evolve and provide a unique encounter for each individual who partook in the experience. -
Yard by Allan Kaprow
ard by Kaprow involved the random scattering and piling of tires over the floor and an invitation to visitors to climb over them. This piece was supposedly in response to Jackson Pollack's "drip" paintings: the incorporation of chance as a mainstay of the work, but with a certain amount of control left to the artist. Just as Pollock had a certain amount of power over his drip paintings, aesthetics were still very much subject to chance. -
Tracey Emin "My Bed" believed to be vandalized
In 1999 Tracey Emin was on the verge of winning the Turner Prize for her conceptual piece "My Bed," when one of the museums's patrons saw the exhibit and, beliveing that it had been vandalised, straightened it up and made the bed. -
Cleaner cleans up Hirst's ashtray art
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Article on some famous misunderstandings which have led to great art
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"Where shall we go dancing tonight? ”by Sara Goldschmied and Eleonora Chiari accidently cleaned
