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Gerrit Rietveld Academy Basicyear Longlist Exam Questions 2013
1. Why can modern day man, not be granted authority to disclaim cultural expressions that is foreign to that of himself from/as being art?
2. Breton wrote in 1929 'The problem of women is the most marvellous and disturbing problem in the world'. Explain the place of woman in the surrealist movement. The place of woman in the surrealist movement is divided in two. On one hand the woman are used as muses for artists and is also a subject of desire. On the other hand
3. What were the ideas of Cubism, Futurism and Dada?
Cubism
An early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Cubism began as an idea and then it became a style. Based on Paul Cézanne's three main ingredients: geometrically, simultaneity (multiple views) and passage - Cubism tried to describe, in visual terms, the concept of the Fourth Dimension.
Futurism
An artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city
Dada
The groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of anti art to be later embraced for anarchy-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.
4. How is Dada related to the First World War?
The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants of Dada, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity—in art and more broadly in society—that corresponded to the war. So.. Dada was a reaction to the horror of the war
Gerrit Rietveld Academy Basicyear Longlist Exam Questions 2013
1. Why can modern day man, not be granted authority to disclaim cultural expressions that is foreign to that of himself from/as being art?
2. Breton wrote in 1929 'The problem of women is the most marvellous and disturbing problem in the world'. Explain the place of woman in the surrealist movement. The place of woman in the surrealist movement is divided in two. On one hand the woman are used as muses for artists and is also a subject of desire. On the other hand
3. What were the ideas of Cubism, Futurism and Dada?
Cubism
An early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Cubism began as an idea and then it became a style. Based on Paul Cézanne's three main ingredients: geometrically, simultaneity (multiple views) and passage - Cubism tried to describe, in visual terms, the concept of the Fourth Dimension.
Futurism
An artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city
Dada
The groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of anti art to be later embraced for anarchy-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.
4. How is Dada related to the First World War?
The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants of Dada, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity—in art and more broadly in society—that corresponded to the war. So.. Dada was a reaction to the horror of the war