CREATIVITY IN ART DESIGN AND MULTIMEDIA

It's going to be a post full of facts in here........

Something I'm not really fond of.

Somewhere in France in early 1920s, a French looked at this art form above..

"Le Surréalisme!"

(the art of surrealism!)

However, take the same photo, discredit the artist, and take a time machine back not long, just 4 years before it in 1916 only this time, we head to Switzerland

Somewhere in Switzerland in 1916 or early 20th century, a Swiss looked at this art form above..

"Le DADAISM!"

(dada art movement!)

As an art movement that will later inspire the movement of Surrealism, Dadaism first emerged as an opposition towards horrors of World War I leading it to be called an anti-war movement in form of art. Dadaism is a ticket for artists to bail their minds from being limited to logic and reality elements as Dadaism proposes the idea of nonsensical and absurdness, just like Surrealism as the pioneer, Andre Breton was also an activist of Dadaism

It has been described as "anti-art" by a major figure of Dadaism, Hans Richter, a German versatile art personnel (filmmaker, artist, painter, etc.). Anti-art is opposing everything art is holding on too, which in this case, aesthetics value. Anti- art has been a common description to depict Dadaism as a whole.

While Surrealism has evolved to become a major art stream in portraying exquisite talents of the artists, Dadaism is more like a protest to oppose the government benefits or capitalism that the activists believe to provoke war. Dadaists believe that by ignoring logic and reasons, they are letting themselves free or in other words, invoking peace.

poster for Degenerate Art exhibition

However, as time passes, the protest mindset of Dada has been welded into a beautiful art adaptation, Surrealism which is a more modernized as many dadaists have diverged their art path towards Surrealism. Dadaism is also subjected with Nazi's  entartete Kunst or "degenerate art" which are  forms of art that Nazi believed to be provoking or spreading propaganda and might bring harm to them apart from thinking that those arts are not "so-German". Among others listed as "degenerate art" are cubism and Fauvism.

SO IF I'M ASKED THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DADAISM AND SURREALISM. WELL, I REALLY CAN'T ANSWER IT, I'M NO ONE IN THIS ART WORLD, MAYBE ONLY THE MAJOR FIGURES CAN ANSWER. BUT, IF TO PUT IT IN SOME WAY.


I THINK DADAISM IS THE EVIL TWIN. ;)

DADAISM IN MULTIMEDIA

ART FILM

French avant-garde movement has also influenced the making of "art film". Some figures in Dadaism are subjected to filmmaking, such as Man Ray, René Clair, and Marcel Duchamp. Among the common technique used in Dada films include Rayographs, soft focus and stopmotion. 

EXAMPLE OF DADA FILM

Ghosts Before Breakfast - Hans Richter

(damnn I don't understand a thing)

Food (Jidlo) - Jan Svankmajer

MUSIC

Dadaism has influenced a revolution in music as well. Just like the aim of every Dada activity, the mission of Dada music is to destroy the traditional symbolic communication. Kurt Schwitters, a versatile artist (poet, painter, musician,etc) has developed what he called "sound poems" while "dada music" was soon constructed by composers such as Hans Heusser. African music and jazz were common in Dada gatherings, indicting a return to nature.

Kangding Ray - Dadaist

(i really don't want to listen to this kind of music ever again)

A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE

(it's called that way because this is from my point of view, I don't know if it's right)

PSYCHEDELIC ART : A MODERNIZATION OF DADAISM AND SURREALISM

Psychedelic art,  not illuminati..there's no such thing as illuminati art.

I believe that psychedelic art shares the same concept and perspective as surrealism art. This is because if the aim of surrealism is to mimic something surreal or out of the world, the aim of psychedelic art is to mimic the effect of drugs usage (because people say when they are 'high', they see things)

REASONS WHY I BELIEVE SO :-

1) It's part of the 1960s counterculture. Surrealism and Dadaism took place about 40 years prior. It's not wrong to believe that psychedelic art it's actually influenced by both art movements.

2) 1960s counterculture as a sign of peace that emerged after United States' military interventions in Vietnam. Similarly, Dadaism emerged to oppose the World War I.

3) While surrealism art's concept is to mimic non-reality subjects, such as visuals of what might occur in dreams, psychedelic art mimics visuals of what might occur when someone is under the influence of drug such as LSD and mescaline.

4) Psychedelic art uses surrealistic subject matters

5) Psychedelic Rock concert posters are influenced by Dada

6) 

Notice how this picture kind of looks the same as the thumbnail of the Dada film? Spiral, the best way to get high

LONG STORY SHORT, I THINK PSYCHEDELIC ART IS THE YOUNG GENERATION'S VERSION OF DADAISM AND SURREALISM.

IF THAT SO, THEN I BELIEVE PSYCHEDELIC ROCK IS THE EVOLUTION OF DADA MUSIC

If psychedelic visual art is meant to visualize surrealistic elements when a person is under influence of drugs, then psychedelic rock is meant to give audio to it. Psychedelic rock music is often tranquilizing, like the type of music you'll listen to when you are going to sleep. Although having guitars (with wah wah) and drums as instruments, psychedelic rock doesn't have hard riff (but the instrumental part is usually long) like other known heavy metal songs as it's trying to build a serenading environment with help from other instruments like percussion and sifar. It also has a large keyboard influence and Mellotron. The lyrics are hard to be comprehended, and always give reference to nature or drugs. The music video has a surrealistic approach. Among the bands that anchor the psychedelic rock scene in present years is of course MGMT.

MGMT - KIDS

TO SUM THIS POST UP, CREATIVITY IS VAST AS IT MAY FIT INTO ANY KIND OF MEDIUM. FOR EXAMPLE, SURREALISM IS STILL SURREALISM IN VISUAL, OR IN MUSIC, THE CONCEPT WILL REMAIN THE SAME.THE QUESTION IS..

HOW DO YOU FIT IT IN? ;)

P/S : I can't believe I can make a factual post this long...I'm infatuated with myself. :3