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Marcel Janco (Attributed to) - Horah

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Marcel Janco

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Intérieur de la Villa Solly Gold, Bucarest, Roumanie. Architecte : Marcel Janco 1934. Crédit photo : Marius Marcu Lăpădat, Mihai Caranică, Crisanta Măciuceanu. - source Cristina Ardelean via Art Deco.

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Iuliu Iancu (centre) and Marcel Iancu (right) with an unidentified classmate,* looking through a large cone, Bucharest, n.d.

Jules Janco: Art + Architecture exhibition, Jewish Public Library in Montréal

*The source doesn't identify him, but it looks like Ion Vinea to me.

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Daily Painting

Marcel Janco BALL IN ZURICH (1917)

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«Stereo Headphones» – an occasional magazine of the new poetries, No. 6, 'The Treated Text', Edited by Nicholas Zurbrugg, Kersey, Summer 1974, Edition of 515 [room 3o2 books, Ottawa]

Issued in 2 variants: (i) 500 unique trade copies; (ii) 15 numbered copies on handmade paper with extra material by Lourdes Castro, Hans Richter, and Edgardo Antonio Vigo

Cover Art: Nicholas Zurbrugg

Contributors: Stephen Bann, Lourdes Castro, Jacques Caumont, Henri Chopin, Thomas A Clark, Bob Cobbing, Peter Dienst, François Dufrêne, Peter Finch, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Paul-Armand Gette, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Marcel Janco, Kitasono Katué, Robert Lax, Jean Le Gac, Peter Mayer, Barry McCallion, Edwin Morgan, Tom Phillips, Hans Richter, Edward Ruscha, Kurt Schwitters, Joe Tilson, Ben Vautier, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Lawrence Weiner, Gloria Wilson, Nicholas Zurbrugg

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The weekly sculpture corner

A couple in a sardine can

 Ein Hod

Ein Hod is a village in Haifa District in northern Israel. Located at the foot of Mount Carmel and southeast of Haifa,

Ein Hod became an artists' colony in 1953. The driving spirit behind the project was Marcel Janco, an acclaimed Dada artist, who kept the village from being demolished by the security forces and convinced the government to let him build an artists' colony there

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Marcel Janco, “Ball in Zurich”, 1917

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Marcel Janco, Relief au miroir, 1916 - 1917

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Marcel Janco - Interférence

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Marcel Janco - 1895 - 1984

Arab Family,

Oil on masonite

Tiroche

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Reading 2: DADA & Photomontage

DADA was an avant-garde movement that emerged as a negative reaction to the horrors and absurdities of World War I. It was characterized by its rejection of the traditional values and norms of art and society, aiming to devalue established conventions through irrationality and nonsense.

DADA was rooted in the neutral environment of Switzerland but quickly grew into an international movement. DADA was anti-war, anti-bourgeois, and anti-art, embodying a state of mind rather than a specific style. It was an uprising against the cultural and intellectual conformity that had led to the war, emphasizing spontaneity, nonsense, and the irrational.

DADA artists expressed their ideas through various means, including absurd performances, irrational and fragmented poetry, and art that defied traditional aesthetics and meaning. Their works often involved satire, parody, and a deliberate embrace of chaos and randomness to challenge the existing social and artistic norms.

DADA's influence is evident in various modern and contemporary art forms, particularly in surrealism, performance, and conceptual art. The movement's legacy persists in the modern art world, where artists continue to explore themes of absurdity, challenge conventional aesthetics, and push the boundaries of what art can be.

Tristan Tzara, a founding figure of DADA, was known for his provocative poetry and manifestos that articulated the movement's anti-establishment ethos. Marcel Janco's chaotic and fragmented paintings and architecture embodied DADA's aesthetic. Hugo Ball, a poet and performer, was instrumental in founding DADA and establishing its theatrical and performative aspects through his elaborate sound poem recitations. Jean Arp's abstract sculptures and collages exemplified DADA's embrace of chance and irrationality. Hannah Höch pioneered photomontage, creating provocative and surreal collages that critiqued contemporary society and gender norms. Raoul Hausmann, a key figure in the Berlin DADA group, innovatively used photomontage to critique media and political propaganda. Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades, such as "Fountain," radically redefined art and challenged the notion of artistic authorship and creativity.

DADA artists, particularly through the use of photomontage, redefined the role and potential of photography. Hannah Höch and others used this technique to create new, surreal images by cutting and reassembling photographs. This method challenged the idea of photography as a mere tool for documentation and opened up new avenues for creative and critical expression. Their work demonstrated that photographs could be manipulated to convey complex and provocative messages, breaking away from traditional notions of visual representation.

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Marcel Iancu (Romanian, later Israeli, 1895–1984)

Portrait of Romulus Dianu (Romanian, 1905–1975), published in his novel Nopți la Ada-Kaleh (Bucharest: Rosidor/Ciornei, [1933])

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I ribelli del Dadaismo: un viaggio tra ironia e nichilismo

Il Dadaismo, nato durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale come reazione all'orrore e all'assurdità del conflitto, sconvolse il panorama artistico del XX secolo. Artisti provenienti da diverse discipline si unirono sotto l'egida di un'unica parola, "Dada", che in romeno significa "si", "no" e "bambino". Un'ironia intrinseca che permeava ogni loro opera, volta a sovvertire le convenzioni artistiche e a mettere in discussione il concetto stesso di arte. Zurigo, Cabaret Voltaire e la nascita del movimento Nel 1916, a Zurigo, un gruppo di artisti e intellettuali, tra cui Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp e Marcel Janco, si rifugiò dalla guerra. Incontrandosi al Cabaret Voltaire, diedero vita al Dadaismo. Le loro serate erano un mix di performance caotiche, poesia fonetica, musica atonale e arte visiva provocatoria. L'obiettivo era quello di creare un'arte anti-arte, che distruggesse i valori borghesi e celebrasse l'irrazionalità. Dada a New York e Parigi Il movimento si diffuse rapidamente in altre città, come New York e Parigi. A New York, Marcel Duchamp scandalizzò il mondo dell'arte con i suoi "ready-made", oggetti quotidiani elevati a opere d'arte per il semplice fatto di essere stati scelti dall'artista. Man Ray, con i suoi fotogrammi e le sue opere surrealiste, contribuì a dare al Dadaismo americano una sua identità specifica. A Parigi, Francis Picabia con le sue riviste e i suoi dipinti satirici, e Sophie Taeuber-Arp con le sue opere astratte e i suoi dada-textiles, alimentarono la vena polemica e iconoclasta del movimento. Tecniche e linguaggi del Dadaismo I dadaisti utilizzarono una varietà di tecniche e linguaggi per esprimere la loro disillusione e il loro nichilismo. Il collage, il fotomontaggio, l'assemblaggio di oggetti trovati e l'utilizzo di materiali inusuali erano all'ordine del giorno. La poesia dadaista era spesso nonsense, fatta di suoni e parole senza senso, che rifletteva il caos e l'assurdità del mondo circostante. Eredità del Dadaismo Il Dadaismo, pur essendo durato solo un decennio, ha avuto un'influenza enorme sull'arte moderna. Il suo spirito di ribellione e di sperimentazione ha aperto la strada a movimenti successivi come il Surrealismo e l'Arte Concettuale. L'ironia dissacrante e il rifiuto delle convenzioni borghesi continuano a ispirare artisti e creativi ancora oggi. Oltre ai nomi già citati, altri artisti dadaisti di rilievo includono: - Hans Richter (Germania) - Kurt Schwitters (Germania) - Hannah Höch (Germania) - Beatriz Hastings (Inghilterra) - Marcel Janco (Romania) - Francis Picabia (Francia) - Man Ray (Stati Uniti) Foto di Robert Nilsson da Pixabay Read the full article

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Reading Prompt 2

Starting in 1916, during World War I, DADA was a literary and art movement. DADA was founded in Zürich, Switzerland, by DADA artists such as Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck. Many arts that came out of DADA seemed like nonsensical madness, as it often was photomontages (cut up and pasted images) to gibberish poetry reading. Although DADA, itself, has no meaning, the narrative in the art, poetry, and performance produced often had a deeper political meaning. These political narratives started by shedding light on the horrors of war but then led to other issues like women’s suffrage and social norms at the moment. DADA artists wanted to shock and confuse people with their art, while creating a deeper meaning which challenged standard social norms and issues. DADA artists such as Marcel Duchamp created Fountain, which is one of his readymade sculptures made in 1917. This sculpture challenged the artist to question what art is, challenging traditional art. Though a strange concept, Duchamp and many other DADA artists influenced many of the art styles and changed the meaning of art today. They created meaning in their art in a silly way that challenged the artist of their time.

Another artist that took social issues and created art out of them was German artist Hannah Hoch. Hoch’s most popular DADA artwork is Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany. It seemed like a type of protest about many issues. In the artwork, it can be cut apart into different sections. We can see a separation between DADA and anti-DADA at the top and bottom. The top section was the anti-DADAist and their expressions against DADAism. While the bottom half was the world of DADAist and to encourage others to join DADA. In this artwork, Hannah Hoch tackled other social issues, such as the women’s suffrage movement. Man Ray was another DADA artist who found his main form of creating art was through black room manipulations. His photograms, which he called Rayographs, The Kiss (1922) and Glass tears (1932) had deeper meanings that connected to him as an artist. As we know, Marcel Duchamp created sculptures, which he called readymade, that challenged artists and what was classified as art. Many of these DADA artists pushed the world of art, breaking the rules by creating sculptures and images that were not classified as beauty and were seen as obscure and nonsensical. Many could not understand the meaning of their artwork and would become rallied up. With that said, this reaction was exactly what these artists' goal was; to challenge the social norms and bring a new point of view. DADA artists like Man Ray help photographers understand that there could be more to their photos with dark room manipulation. In conclusion, DADA artists allowed for new forms of art to be created, with the use of readymade and Rayographs, like Surrealism and a more modern type of art, Pop art and Contemporary art.

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Marcel Janco

 Portrait of Tristan Tzara (1919).