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News and Articles on Dada Movement
Exhibit studies artist who tweaked 'Mona Lisa' Apr 5, 2009
At the center of the Dada movement in New York, Duchamp proceeded to playfully break all the rules. There was his gender-bending desecration of a copy of "Mona Lisa" in 1919 with the naughty message beneath the picture - L.H.O.O.Q. The letters, pronounced in French, translate politely as "she has a hot bottom" or "there is fire down below.". (Athens Banner-Herald)
Putting on the Schmitz Mar 8, 2009
Travesties brings together James Joyce, Lenin and Tzara, co-founder of the Dada movement, all of whom lived in Zurich during World War I, and twists them into a parody of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest. "To lose one revolution may be regarded as misfortune," says Stoppard's Lenin. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Yves Saint Laurent art sells for €206 million Feb 24, 2009
A fifth record was improbably set earlier for a work by Marcel Duchamp, the master of the Dada movement propounding the absurd as an art form, when two banal toilet water flasks with added inscriptions fetched 8. 91 million. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
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