The Liberation of Image

The Liberation of Art:  Duchamp, Dada, Fluxus, & Post Modern Art

Impressionism (1860 -1900)

Claude Monet - Impression, soleil levant (1873)


Post- Impressionism (1880-1920)

Vincent Van Gogh - Starry Night (1889)


Fauvism (1904-1910)

Henri Matisse - Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra) (1907)


Cubism (1908-1914)

Pablo Picasso - The Musicians (1921)


Juan Gris - The Man in the Cafe (1912)




Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2  (1912)



Edward Muybridge - Woman Walking Downstairs (1887)


 Eliot Elisofon - Marcel Duchamp Descending a Staircase (1952)


Collage and readymades - new Art Materials!

Pablo Picasso - Still Life with Chair-Caning (1912)




Marcel Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel Readymade (1913)



Marcel Duchamp - With Hidden Noise (1916)

 



Marcel Duchamp - Fountain (1917)



Marcel Duchamp's "assisted readymade" Mona Lisa (1919)



Duchamp talks about his Readymades



Marcel Duchamp talks about his art on BBC (1968):





DADA - complete indifference to art (1915-19__)

Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich


Karawane - Hugo Ball

Kurt Schwitters - Ursonate (1932)



Other Minds 23: April 2018 - International Sound Poetry


Kurt Schwitters - Collage

Kurt Schwitters - Merzbau (1923-37)


Surrealism (1920-1930s)

Rene Magritte - Time Transfixed (La Durée poignardée, 1938)





Salvador Dali - Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of a Civil War (1936)



Post-Modern Art

Abstract Expressionism (1940s-1960s)

Jackson Pollack - Convergence (1952)



Minimalism

Rothko - Untitled Red Blue Orange (1955)




Pop Art:



Roy Lichtenstein - Oh Jeff (1964)



Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroes (1962-1967)


Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Cans (1962)


Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable:




Fluxus:

George Brecht - Drip Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5lgaE-qZY




George Maciunas - Piano Piece #13 (for Nam June Paik) - 1962?
recreated by Sonic Youth




Gyorgy Ligeti - Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes (1962):





Christian Marclay on Night Music: