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# cubism is alright
but it ain't got shit on dadaism. have you ever seen 'our dumb century - the onion through history'? one of the best headlines in there is 'DADAISM DECLARED DEAD. DADAIST CLAIM VICTORY'

also 'AMERICAN TROOPS PULL OUT OF VIATNAMESE GIRL' is good too
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 10:34, archived)
# Haha! Brilliant. I'd forgotten that one. Dadaists really had such a good temperament. I still prefer some of the 'lesser known' Dadaists to the likes of Duchamp and Manray such as
Kurt Scwitters, Hannah Hoch and Francis Picabia.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 10:38, archived)
# picabia was marvellous
the thing is that the artists who are best known in a movement tend to be for a reason, did you see the dada exhibition at the modern? i adore manray personally.there was a girl i saw a few weeks ago in town who i nearly got down on one knee and proposed to, a beautiful mixed race asian girl who carried a violin case and had 'f' holes tattooed on her midriff
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 10:43, archived)
# That's quite something. I mean I appreciate what they did in a big way. They pushed forward with their ideas and their progression spawned a lot of the 20th century 'isms' (surrealism, cubism, vorticism etc.) but I tend to prefer the guys who were the
'bedrocks' as such, in that they layed the foundation for the bigger names.

On a sidenote: I adore Manrays work with film.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 10:59, archived)
# i've never actually seen it
in fact a better way of putting it would be actively avoid seeing it. i made the mistake of seeing Dali's film work and just thought it was a bit shit really. i'll tell you what was quite cool though, me and Hexy went to the Cy Twombly exhibit in the Modern a few weeks back, that really worth a look, especially his later stuff you might like. he has the amazing way of drawing liquids.
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 11:04, archived)
# I'll have to look around then. My guess is that stuff was a springboard for Vorticism.
We'll continue this another time. Tatata!
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 11:19, archived)