Dada & Friends






 
The DADA Server

This is a really fine website on Dada, offering many photos, graphics, caricatures. Have a look at "Artificial malevolence" and the strange trade marks, "pretend to be your favorite dictator or television sit-com character and I'll try to guess who you're supposed to be," you'll be asked by an interactive cgi-script. Visit the anonymous message-server and URL-server, solve the riddle "Find-the-spam!" You'll find many witty and interactive pages here, but be aware: they sometimes take the piss out of you!

Dada - Wave is just one page on Dadaism, but with a good overview on its origin and aims, the beginnings and later development, the greatest artists, illustrated with some images.

   
Surrealism

"This Surrealism server"- quotation from the website - "only serves itself and nobody else! The last update (up till now the best): 31.2.1906." The many funny, peculiar, absurd linguistic, odds and ends suffice to make these pages worth a visit. But wait, there's more: the compliments generator, a dialog with the invisible Esme chatting online with you (sometimes neglecting your inputs completely, but sometimes answering with great empathy), surrealistic games. Worth a visit too is the image gallery with works of Dali, DuChamp, Ernst, Grosz, Hausmann, Magritte and Miro.

 
   
 
Salvador Dali

94 oil paintings and more than 100 aquarelles, holograms, objects and photographs by Salvador Dali are offered online by the Dali Museum of St.Petersburg, Florida. Included are some of his world-famous surrealist works, but it is also very interesting to recognize Picasso's or Cezanne's influence on the earlier works of this extravagant artist.

   
A Docent's Tour of Salvador Dali Resources

This is a very comprehensive site on Dali, I suppose the best on the web. It includes photos of Dali, many images, interpretive texts, biographical information, art-historical and geographical articles, a timeline of his life, descriptions of surrealism and Dali's different periods, his family, many paintings with really detailed background information...... a must-see for Dali- and art-fans!

 
   
 
Fluxus

Action art, happening, audiovisual media, paintings and all the different styles and techniques of "Fluxus" are presented at this site. The stylistic diversity of art works presented here is impressive: photo, video, audio, poster, installations, poems, collages and more are all to be found. Text contributions, however, are lacking.

   
The Massurealist Society

You certainly know the mass-media. And Surrealism too. So you may already have an idea of Massurealism: "a form of art that is rooted in the combination of pop-art and surrealism, and influenced by the mass media. Massurrealism is a form of surrealism, essentially it is a further evolution of surrealism that recognizes the strong influence of the mass-media and technology on today's surrealist imagery." On this site the Massurealist Society presents many essays, features, artworks (photos, paintings, digital art) and a discussion forum.

 
   
 
René Magritte

This site presents nearly 300 paintings by the famous Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte and one hundred more will be offered soon. Click on thumbnails to view medium-sized JPG-images (7-15 K). At this point browsing is a bit difficult, since all titles are listed only in French. But an English index is coming soon as well as historical background material and information about each painting.

   


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