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Swans Reflecting Elephants, c.1937by Salvador Dali
36" x 26" Framed Print Frame
Price: $320.99 Sale: $160.49 And Fix the Hairs of the Starby Joan Miro
32" x 40" Framed Print Frame
Price: $408.99 Sale: $204.49 Birth of Liquid Desires, c.1932by Salvador Dali
33" x 29" Framed Print Frame
Price: $343.99 Sale: $171.99 Configurationby Jean Arp
25" x 31" Framed Artwork Frame
Price: $303.99 Sale: $151.99 Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, c.1938by Salvador Dali
21" x 18" Framed Print Frame
Price: $197.99 Sale: $98.99 Impressions of Africa, c.1938by Salvador Dali
21" x 18" Framed Print Frame
Price: $197.99 Sale: $98.99 and Fix the Hairs of the Starby Joan Miro
22" x 26" Framed Print Frame
Price: $278.99 Sale: $139.49 Colored Design For The Central Hall Of A University, 1923by Theo van Doesburg
35" x 19" Framed Art Frame
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Price: $296.99 Sale: $148.49 Flying Geeseby Max Ernst
30" x 25" Framed Artwork Frame
Price: $293.99 Sale: $146.99 Plan For A Bus Station: Design For The First Floor, 1927by Theo van Doesburg
29" x 18" Framed Art Frame
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Price: $250.99 Sale: $125.49
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Framed Dada Artwork
Dada was a popular artistic movement in Europe and America in the early twentieth century. One of the goals of many pieces of framed dada art was to subvert the viewer’s expectation of what art should look like. Dada was extremely controversial in its time but has gone on to influence later major artistic movements, such as surrealism and pop art.
The early Dada artists began in Zurich in the mid-1910s, and a similar group of artists in New York also worked with a Dada approach around this time. These artists were outraged by the outbreak of World War I and used their framed dada art pieces to express their dissatisfaction with the war and what they considered to be bourgeois culture as a whole. Dada art was a protest against a variety of things in society, and as such was meant to unsettle its audience.
Francis Picabla’s “Portrait d'une jeune fille americaine dans l'etat de nudite” is a great example of early framed dada art pictures. Although the title hints toward a subject of a nude young woman, the actual work looks like an architectural diagram of a piece of machinery that might not even be real. Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky) used his background as a photographer to create collage pieces like “The Coat-Stand (Porte manteau).”
Although the Dada movement faded after the mid-1920s, it produced some of the twentieth century’s most recognizable art. Marcel Duchamp’s term “anti-art” has gone on to be claimed by many artists after him who which to subvert their viewers’ expectations.
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