“The thing that I was looking at this morning that would recall these words to me … the whole Kanye/PornHub thing that just happened, where he’s the creative director of their awards,” Ward said. “And then there are people like Duchamp and Picabia who are posing interesting questions, but within an almost juvenile sense of humor.”Ī movement of avant-garde art in the early 20th century, Dadaism and its precursors of anti-art sought to challenge what was considered art.
“But this is all going back to earlier movements in the 20th century like True Dada, which goes in a variety of different directions, but was always aimed at being somewhat controversial, sometimes in very political ways,” Ward said. “So Johns kind of goes, ‘Here sell them.’ And of course they did and made a fortune.” “The great story about Johns is he produces a series of bronze beer cans that are a response to his dealer saying that this dealer could sell some beer cans that de Kooning had thrown away,” Ward said. Johns, who’s also claimed by abstract expressionism and pop art, is best known for his depictions and recreations of the American flag.
“People like (Jasper) Johns who were playing around, not only with popular culture, but using some irony.” “For an art historian, Neo-Dada is a very specific term for a few artists in the ’60s,” Art History lecturer Tara Ward said in an interview with The Daily.
