I made some new jewelry last night which prompted a photo shoot today. I also got a sweet new haircut (the faux hawk is back!) so I broke out the lights and backdrop and shot this one above. I posted it on facebook and an artist friend commented that it looks like Dada. Took me a minute before I realized he meant Dadaism, the art movement. It is reminiscent of Man Ray and I took it as a compliment! I wanted to brush up on what I knew about Dadaism so I googled it. I got completely inspired by well...nothing.This is from wikipedia:
"Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestos, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchist in nature."
Then I started reading some quotes and was very entertained by their obsession with nothingness. I'd love to hang an entire show of these.
