The manifesto, entitled "La cause était entendue" (The Case Was Settled) was written by CoBrA member Christian Dotremont and signed by all founding members in Paris in 1948. It was directly speaking to their experience attending the Centre International de Documentation sur l’Art d’Avant-garde in which they felt the atmosphere was sterile and authoritarian. It was a statement of working collaboratively in an organic mode of experimentation in order to develop their work separate from the current place of the avant-garde movement. The name of the manifesto was also a play on words from an earlier document signed by Belgian and French Revolutionary Surrealists in July 1947, entitled "La cause est entendue" (The Case Was Settled).
Monday, 5 October 2015
COBRA
Cobra was a European Avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951. During the time of occupation of world war 2, The netherlands had been disconnected from the art world beyond its borders. COBRA was formed shortly thereafter. This international movement of artists who worked experimentally evolved from the criticism of western society and a common desire to break away from existing art movements, including detested naturalism and sterile abstraction. Experimentation was the symbol of an unfettered freedom. Which, according to constant, was ultimately embodied by children and the expressions of children. COBRA was formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn , and Joesph Noiret on november 8th 1948 in the cafe Notre-Dam. paris with the signing of a manifesto. "La cause etait entendue (The case was settled). Drawn up by Dotremont, Formed with a unifying doctrine of complete freedom of color and form, as well as modernism.
Their working method was based on spontaneity and experiment, and they drew their inspiration in particular from children's drawings, from primitive art forms an from the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miro.
Coming together as an amalgamation of the Dutch group Host and the Belgian revolutionary surrealist group. The group only lasted a few years bur managed to achieve a number of objectives in that time: the periodical COBRA, a series of collaboration between various members called Peintures-Mot and two large-scale exhibitions. The first of these was held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. November 1949, the other at the Palas des Beaux - Arts in Leige in 1951.
Their working method was based on spontaneity and experiment, and they drew their inspiration in particular from children's drawings, from primitive art forms an from the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miro.
Coming together as an amalgamation of the Dutch group Host and the Belgian revolutionary surrealist group. The group only lasted a few years bur managed to achieve a number of objectives in that time: the periodical COBRA, a series of collaboration between various members called Peintures-Mot and two large-scale exhibitions. The first of these was held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. November 1949, the other at the Palas des Beaux - Arts in Leige in 1951.
In November 1949 the group officially changed its name to Internationale des Artistes Expérimentaux with membership having spread across Europe and the USA, although this name has never stuck. The movement was officially disbanded in 1951, but many of its members remained close, with Dotremont in particular continuing collaborations with many of the leading members of the group. The primary focus of the group consisted of semi-abstract paintings with brilliant color, violent brushwork, and distorted human figures inspired by primitive and folk art and similar to American action painting . Cobra was a milestone in the development of Tachisme and European abstract expressionism.
Cobra was perhaps the last avant-garde movement of the twentieth century.[6] According to Nathalie Aubert the group only lasted officially for three years (1948 to 1951). After that period each artist in the group developed their own individual paths.
Dada collage and text
Hannah Hoch
Is known for producing political collage and photomontage, She appropriated and rearranged images and text from the media to critique the failings of the Weimar German Government. She drew inspiration from the collage work of Pablo Picasso and Kurt Schwitters and her own compositions share with those artists a similarly dynamic and layered style. Hannah preferred metaphoric imagery to the more direct, text-based confrontational approach of her contemporary John Heartfield, whose work she found “tendentious.” She rejected the German government, but often focused her criticism more narrowly on gender issues, and is recognized as a pioneering feminist artist for works such as Das schöne Mädchen (The Beautiful Girl), (1920), an evocative visual reaction to the birth of industrial advertising and ideals of beauty it furthered. Höch was, for a period of time, the partner of Dada artist Raoul Haussman
Exquisite Corpse is a method for collaboratively creating an art work. One person in a group gets it started, and then hands it off to any number of other people or groups in sequence, who can add to it or modify it however they see fit. A key twist is that most of the prior work is hidden from the group currently working on it , the current group only has part of the existing thing to build from. This can lead to hilarious drawings of grotesque bodies with hands coming out of necks, for example, hence the name exquisite corpse.
In Marxist philosophy the Bourgeoisie is the social class who owns the means of production and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital, to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society.
The avant-garde are people or works that are experimental ar innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo. Primarily in the cultural realm. The avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Many artists have aligned themselves with the avant-garde movement and still continue to do so, tracing a history from Dada through the situationists to postmodern artists such as the language poets around 1981.
The avant-garde also promotes radical social reforms. It was this meaning that was evoked by the saint Simonian Olinde Rodrigues in his essay "L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel" ("The artist, the scientist and the industrialist", 1825). Which contains the first recorded use of avant-garde in its now customary sense:there, Rodrigues calls on artist to "serve as [the people,s] avant-garde". Insisting that the power of the arts is needed the most immediate and fastest way to social, political and economic reform.
Juxtaposition is a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.
In literature, Juxtaposition is a useful device for writers to portray their characters in great detail to create suspense and achieve a rhetorical effect. It is human quality to comprehend one thing easily by comparing it to another. Therefore, a writer can make readers sense "goodness" in a particular character by placing him or her side by side to a character that is predominantly evil. Consequently. goodness in one character is highlighted by evil in the other character. Juxtaposition in this case is useful in the development of characters.
Rrose Selavy was one of the pseudonyms of artist Marcel Duchamp. The name. A pun, sounds like the French phrase "Eros, C'est La Vie", which translatesto english as "Eros, thats life. It has also been read as "arroser La Vie" (to make a toast to life").
Selavy emerged in 1921 in a series of photographs by Man Ray of Duchamp dressed as a woman. Through the 1920s , Man Ray and Duchamp collaborated on more photos of selavy. Duchamp later used the name as the byline on written material and signed several creations with it.
Is known for producing political collage and photomontage, She appropriated and rearranged images and text from the media to critique the failings of the Weimar German Government. She drew inspiration from the collage work of Pablo Picasso and Kurt Schwitters and her own compositions share with those artists a similarly dynamic and layered style. Hannah preferred metaphoric imagery to the more direct, text-based confrontational approach of her contemporary John Heartfield, whose work she found “tendentious.” She rejected the German government, but often focused her criticism more narrowly on gender issues, and is recognized as a pioneering feminist artist for works such as Das schöne Mädchen (The Beautiful Girl), (1920), an evocative visual reaction to the birth of industrial advertising and ideals of beauty it furthered. Höch was, for a period of time, the partner of Dada artist Raoul Haussman
Exquisite Corpse is a method for collaboratively creating an art work. One person in a group gets it started, and then hands it off to any number of other people or groups in sequence, who can add to it or modify it however they see fit. A key twist is that most of the prior work is hidden from the group currently working on it , the current group only has part of the existing thing to build from. This can lead to hilarious drawings of grotesque bodies with hands coming out of necks, for example, hence the name exquisite corpse.
In Marxist philosophy the Bourgeoisie is the social class who owns the means of production and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital, to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society.
The avant-garde are people or works that are experimental ar innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo. Primarily in the cultural realm. The avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Many artists have aligned themselves with the avant-garde movement and still continue to do so, tracing a history from Dada through the situationists to postmodern artists such as the language poets around 1981.
The avant-garde also promotes radical social reforms. It was this meaning that was evoked by the saint Simonian Olinde Rodrigues in his essay "L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel" ("The artist, the scientist and the industrialist", 1825). Which contains the first recorded use of avant-garde in its now customary sense:there, Rodrigues calls on artist to "serve as [the people,s] avant-garde". Insisting that the power of the arts is needed the most immediate and fastest way to social, political and economic reform.
Juxtaposition is a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.
In literature, Juxtaposition is a useful device for writers to portray their characters in great detail to create suspense and achieve a rhetorical effect. It is human quality to comprehend one thing easily by comparing it to another. Therefore, a writer can make readers sense "goodness" in a particular character by placing him or her side by side to a character that is predominantly evil. Consequently. goodness in one character is highlighted by evil in the other character. Juxtaposition in this case is useful in the development of characters.
Rrose Selavy was one of the pseudonyms of artist Marcel Duchamp. The name. A pun, sounds like the French phrase "Eros, C'est La Vie", which translatesto english as "Eros, thats life. It has also been read as "arroser La Vie" (to make a toast to life").
Selavy emerged in 1921 in a series of photographs by Man Ray of Duchamp dressed as a woman. Through the 1920s , Man Ray and Duchamp collaborated on more photos of selavy. Duchamp later used the name as the byline on written material and signed several creations with it.
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