Need help! Discuss Dad and Surrealism.?

Answer 1

I assume you mean Dada and Surrealism?
Dadaism: It is a movement in art from the early 20th cen. These artists (such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Joan Miro) thought that there was an elitist attitude towards the importance of The Artist. They took away the importance of the artist in art by using more random acts to create art. (such as cutting up paper, dropping it onto a canvass, and gluing the paper where it landed) The name was chosen because it was something simple and infantile.

Surrealism: It came from Dada. Some of the artists include Salvador Dali (the most famous), Joan Miro (after Dada), and Andre Breton. It was also influenced by Freud's ideas of the unconscious. It tried to capture illogical or dreamlike images to portray the unconscious mind of the artist.

Answer 2

I assume (and hope) you mean Dada and Surrealism two related cultural movements in the early 20th c.
Dada started in Switzerland during WWI. Tristan Tzara, the Romanian artist who became the "spokesperson" for Dada said,
" God and my toothbrush are Dada." which sort of sums up the movement. It was an anti-art, anti-establishment movement in reaction to the horrors of WWI (if a society of "standards" had brought us to this war, then let's have no standards.) Marcel Duchamp's famous "Ready made Fountain," is a good example of Dada art. it was simply a urinal from a men's room hung on a gallery wall. it's purpose was to shock convention and make viewers question how we determine what is art (is it something on the gallery wall?) Imagine how horrifying this was in 1917:
http://www.beatmuseum.org/duchamp/fountain.html
Many subsequent 20th c. movements followed Dada in its "conceptual" (make the viewer think) aspect such as the "beat" art of the 1950s, the pop art of the 1960s and the conceptual and performance art of the 1980s, and of course Surrealism.
For a fuller history of Dada try this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
Surrealism was an outgrowth of Dada (Tristan Tarza moved over to surrealism in the 1920s.) Dada had rejected traditional standards but had only offered the response of revolt, it had no basis for building a "new" art. Some of the artist involved in the french Dada movement began to think about an alternative basis for art. In 1924 Andre Breton summed up these ideas in the First Surrealist Manifesto. He defines Surrealism as, "Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, or in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation." In other words the subconscious mind (introduced to the world by the new science of psychology) was the basis for the new art. The exploration of the images of self-knowledge that exist in our dreams. We can see this in Surrealism"s most famous artist, Salvador Dali, with his weird dream-like landscapes. To follow the full story of surrealism around the world (and to see some of the art) try this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism
I hope this helped a little

Answer 3

Try this site for Surrealism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism

and this site for Dada or Dadaism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadaism