Who have I looked into?
The Dada movement started in Zurich in Germany and the artists, intellectuals and writers were furious with the modern society. So they decided to show their protest through artistic medium and decided to create non-art since art in the society then had no meaning. The so-called non-artists turned to creating art that had soft obscenities, scattered humor, visible puns and everyday objects. The most outrageous painting was created by Marcel Duchamp and he painted a mustache on a copy of Mona Lisa and scribbled obscenities under it.
He also created his sculpture called fountain which was actually a urinal without the plumbing and it had a fake signature. the public were repulsed by the Dada movement. Since Marcel Duchamp liked using the everyday objects as artworks it also becomes a Dada.
Why does Marcel Duchamp relate to my work?
Reflecting back to my first current works with the pairs of English and Chinese food and drink objects, they are also a readymade because of the way they are presented as originals. These everyday objects harks back to dadaism where Duchamp made good use of objects to creating his artworks.
