DADA at MoMa

A mere two days before it closed, I finally go to see the Dada show, at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMa, to it's intimate fans.)

This major museum exhibition, which premiered at the

National Gallery of Art, is the first in the United States to

focus exclusively on Dada, one of the twentieth century’s

most influential avant-garde art movements. Responding

to the disasters of World War I and to an emerging modern

media and machine culture, Dada artists led a creative

revolution that profoundly shaped the course of

subsequent art.

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/Dada.html

It was very impressive, as these folk were the original avant garde.

Now I am not going to try to go that far with a description of the artistic movement but I will say that it was an European art movement that has in its origins a rejection of the horrors of WWI and the alleged modern rational world that produced such a monstrous horror of an event.

Hmmm . . . My quick analysis is that it is nearly 100 years later and the species, the allegedly rational society, is still producing monstrous horrors.

Sucks, that.

However, the art show was very timely, even if old enough a movement to be something of a time capsule.

Ok. That is as close to political as I will get today . . . even considering that Five Year anniversary that is upon us, tomorrow.