Avant Garde continued

'The Incoherents' - Art nouveau - group of artists to look into.

Avant Garde started in around 1912 with Futurism - right wing radical

- Futurist typography "words of freedom" words are read differently in different fonts.
- DADA 1916 - Switzerland like futurism it rejected the past but instead rejected art (Anti-art) paradoxical term. Art but not art.

• Raoul Hasmann - DADA cino - montage - practice that is discontinuous - preserve identity                                                   collage - make items(newspaper, material etc.) into something else e.g. foil into guitar

- DADA - cities over countries
- Automatism - Andre Masson 1924 - suppressing conscious response and letting the pen flow freely.

• Marinetti Boccioni - futurist music - geometric shapes, mechanical aesthetics

- Futurists make words fit together
- DADA pull things apart

• Tristan Tzara - DADA poet
• Kurt Schwitters "Never do what someone has done before you"