Neo-Dada

The prefix neo means "new" and is used in such words as neoclassicism and neo-ba-roque. The toplc here is Neo-Dada. Dadaism was an art movement that arose in Europe and America during World War I. The word dada itseif means "wooden horse" in French. it was just a word picked at randorn from the dictionary. This suggests that Dada was a nihilistic art movement that included all demonstrations and scandals that claimed that "everything was meaningless&sbquo" and amidst the growing sense of war anxiety totally denied rationalistic civilization and the social regimes heading for international conflict. Eventually&sbquo it evolved into surrealism. In 1958 when Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg held one-man exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery&sbquo art journalists ridiculed their art as a kind of "rehash of dada ." Although Johns' Star Spangled Banners&sbquo numbers and targets&sbquo and Rauschenberg's combined expression of objet and paint were new expressive methods from the viewpoint that they presented visual close-ups of daily objects and events&sbquo they were labeled Neo-Dada since they had elements common to Dada&sbquo and led to an international art movement that symbolized negative&sbquo critical and destructive spirituality. In Japan also&sbquo it was developed&sbquo as a new pop art expression for the spirit of social criticism&sbquo into an expression that signified antisocial intention&sbquo by using&sbquo depending on the artist&sbquo such formats as "happenings" and "performances ." l personally believe that there are elements in Dada and Neo-Dada that can free up the state of stagnation in design. If design is trapped in this state of stagnation&sbquo there is meaning in viewing&sbquo while making reference to these lineages in art history&sbquo "liberation from modern art" or the "neo-nature and meta-nature of design."

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