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SOME DADA ART

SOME DADA ART

While trying to fictionalize the spirit of DADAISm I came across various famous DADA art. Though I am not from art academia I Thought I should share few of them with my reader .Now a day’s everything is available in internet , but all information do not reach all user ,hence this effort 

Cut with the Kitchen Knife by Hannah Höch  

One of the initial painting that resulted in the DADA movement. Hannah Höch, was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage, or, photomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media.

Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain

Perhaps the most famous and controversial Dada artwork of all was Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain. It consisted only of a urinal set on its back, but it raised a powerful question: “What exactly is worthy to be called art?” After all, this work of art is just an ugly toilet. But more than just being unappealing to look at, Fountain also attacked the idea that art takes time and effort to make. Duchamp called it a “readymade” piece. . . something we call “found art” today.

Also read : DADAISM fictionalization

The language dilemma

Few days ago I saw this advertisement in “Times of India” asking for scholar to translate Tamil Classic Thirukkural. The Thirukkural is a classical Tamil literature authored by poet Thiruvalluvar. ….

The problem of vernacular language often troubles me. To me A Tamil body putting the effort to translate their classic into language like Dongri, Santhali or Bodo is a big step forward.
We can agree that English is a killer language and globalization annihilating a small languages one at a time…One language, every forthright to be precise  
For those who think in mother tongue it pains when we observe many  words are de facto not in use, not understood my children be on the verse of extinction.

 Language scientist and psychiatrist all over the world have said it over and over again that-initial learning language should be best done in Mother tongue…that we often ignore.
But still English is a very important language, we cannot ignore in this so called modern life...in fact we can take help of this for betterment of smaller languages may be in the form of translations ,once a work is translated into English readership increases many fold across language and continent . For survival and propagation of our tale across the globe we can’t deny the importance of English language. But on second thought many things can be lost in translation …for example as Assamese, Bengali, Oriya are such interrelated language that best result are expected if it gets a direct translation. This is just one example, all languages in the South East Asia are interrelated, so why we letting the original ethos to be distorted when we have option other than English when it come to translation.

That’s why translation amongst regional languages plays a very important role in propagation of vernacular language.
This project is a much welcomed project by Central Institute of Classical Tamil. Hope their project becomes a success and after translation they take the completed project to the ethnic people also. We see very less such language projects, but we need many of them.

Work in progress: Singhadwar re imagined by a creative group

Filmmaker , artist, photographer recreating scene from Singhadwar 

      Parinisha searching her painting

   Raindrenshed Aditya  searching for a story

 Aditya imagination in artists pencil

  Aditya imagination in artists pencil : Final work to be incoprporated in the promotional video

     The final product :ADITYA searching a love story 

The Filmmakers imagination through this promotional video :feel free to watch and comment