(Man Ray did the same thing with his Dada Rayographs, leaving a key, a comb, a coin on sensitive paper and letting the objects make their own pictures.) The three installations seem at first to be the height of impersonality and dispassion -- especially "Mourning Wall".
Chances are, of course, this particular system would choke on a multi-figure painting, a landscape, or pretty much anything by an impressionist, post-Raphaelite or Cubist — we'll leave Dada and Yellowism out of this discussion for now.
And although he was born in the US and spent his early life in New York learning photography and how to be avant-garde while hanging around with Marcel Duchamp, he left after declaring: "Dada cannot live in New York".
They go straight back to Marcel Duchamp's "Dada," the art of the absurd that left an indelible impression on the young Spanish artist newly arrived in Paris.
Her heavily rouged face, seen through a bright blue veil, seems to grow larger from left to right, like a seamless form of Dada montage.
This understanding of a progression toward pure abstraction left no room for influential conceptual movements such as Dada and Pop art, both of which he dismissed.
Next, turn left down Ottostrasse to Neugasse, where there is a Dada-esque quality about the next destination.
He announced on there recently that he's leaving Big Dada and going it alone.
It all started when Dada Life took to social media in December, bemoaning the loss of an important laptop carelessly left on public transportation.
Joyce casts a long shadow, but Odysseus' wanderings did not stop with "Ulysses". He left a trail of salt and sand across Ezra Pound's "Cantos". Louis Aragon abducted Odysseus' son, tender Telemachus, subjecting him to a novella of Dada high jinks.
