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Dadaism and Cubism:  Duchamp and Picasso 

        Since there is a minute similarity between cubism and dadaism, these 
two movements are extremely different.  As the former portrays an original 
painting style, the latter humiliates art and its movements.  One is art, the 
other, anti-art. 

        Cubism is not an imitation of nature but an imposition upon nature of 
geometrical forms derived from the human mind.  Cezanne noted that natural 
objects can be reduced to a geometrical form.  Cubists perceived objects as 
parts rather than a whole.  They also saw the world simultaneously and 
fragmentarily from many points of few than entirely from a single viewpoint. 
Instead of approaching the creation of a three-dimensional painting, cubists 
acted as architects to build their pictures on straight lines and corners, 
which defined the planes of the surfaces.  At the beginning, cubist colors were 
neutral tones of gray, olive, and ochre.  This was to create unity on the whole 
entire painting rather than the subject of the painting, as depicted on 
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.  Cubist pictures tended to be cold, 
impersonal studies in abstract design.  However, such modifications of this 
state as Picasso's Three Musicians began to appear.  The flat, two-dimensional 
order is kept, but the bright coloration gives the canvas a gaiety not found 
earlier.  The subjects show Picasso's interest in circus and theatrical 
performances.  The painting displays a more developed cubism during its time. 

        As cubism has shown originality, dadaism just reacted to the world by 
"humiliating" art.  Dadaism proposed life attitudes that coalesced into 
understandable philosophies.  This movement is called Dada, because the 
 nonsense vocable perfectly connoted its attitudes.  As Tristan Tzara recalled, 
"The beginnings of Dada were not the beginnings of art, but of disgust." 
Dadaism wanted to destroy the hoaxes of reason and to discover an unreasoned 
order."  Marcel Duchamp was the principal pioneer of Dada.  In a period when 
painting had assumed deep conviction as a way of life, Duchamp gave it up in 
the midst of success as "not a goal to fill an entire lifetime."  Emerging 
from the Cubist context of Parisian painting in 1912, he sacrificed paints, 
brushes, and canvas almost entirely to create an anti-art of "Readymade" 
objects or images.  His analytic cubism paintings showed his attempts at 
reduction rather than abstraction.  Duchamp's Chocolate Grinder executed in oil 
on canvas, but it differed from his earlier, more imaginative pictures in being 
simply a dry perspective study of a real object.  He was dissatisfied with his 
image of the chocolate grinder for it was still too freighted with the baggage 
of aesthetic convention that informs any three-dimensional illusion on a flat, 
regular field.  There seemed to be no escape from aesthetics within the 
minimal conditions, or definition, of the art of painting to him.  The 
solution lay in taking the logical step from the replica of an object to the 
object itself.  Hence the origin by fiat of the Readymades: man-designed, 
commercially produced utilitarian objects endowed with the status of anti-art 
by Duchamp's selection and tilting of them.  In 1913 he placed a bicycle wheel 
upside down on a stool;  singled out for contemplation in isolation from its 
normal context and purpose, it seemed strangely enigmatic, especially when the 
wheel turned pointlessly. 

        Obviously, these two movements can not really be actually contrasted 
accurately.  While cubism shows a style of painting, and dadaism an "attitude". 
Cubism was rational, while dadaism irrational.  Cubism designated a particular 
painting style that already existed, when dadaism pre-existed the art to which 
they were applied. 
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