Dada Anti-Bourgeois Grid Paintings

Dada*Began in 1916 as a negative reaction against the horrors of WWI

*Rejected reason and logic

*Prized nonsense, irrationality, and intuition

*Rejected prevailing standards in art

*Anti-war

*Anti-Bourgeois

Bourgeois • Middle class

• Conventional

• Conservative

• Conformist

• Follower

Anti-Bourgeois• Not of the Middle Class

• Unconventional

• Adventurous

• Unique, individual, different from the crowd

• Leader

Assignment • Pick an “underdog” hero who is Anti-

bourgeois, and incorporate imagery that tells his/her story in a painting:

• Different

• Leader

• Adventurous

• Strange (unconventional)

Athletics

Film

Human Rights

Art

Music

Science

Math

Edgar Allen Poe• Credited with pioneering detective fiction and

science fiction

• Was one of the first American authors who tried to make a living on writing alone (which made it difficult for him financially)

• Focused on the dark and macabre

• Married his 13 year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm

Literature