January 31 lecture homework 1

Albie Llada                                                                                                                                          Professor Murdaco

Introduction to Nihilism                                                                                            March 5, 2015

Home Work #1 redone

.  Missing Original since I had posted it on Blackboard or Blogger without an account on blogger.

Take a quote from Nietzsche and explain it and then write something about Germany that interests you

Use the links on my blog page: Nietzsche, CIA WorldFactbook.

Professor.  I couldn’t find your link. All I found was a facebook with a CIA link that had nothing on it but advertisement of the site itself

I found a quote said to be from brainyquote.com of Friedrich Nietzsche  “We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.  My head is spinning having gone through blogger like you said I should under your link.  I still don’t understand that platform for searching things. I’ll leave it at that.  I can’t seem to see the lecture you posted on day one anymore on Blackboard.  So I am using this Microsoft word-file as my medium.

This quote above in my document is hinting me that Nietzsche is complaining that society is trying to be spiritually repressed, and that he feels that it ought to be about his own experience of living life.  Since our lectures have pointed upon Nihilism with its history of being a story that life is lived in the moment without resistance, I gather that he is stating that people are being conditioned to behave with tradition that is holding one back from a real experience of their own. I also think that he may be stating that because he is experiencing his life to the fullest, he then feels satisfied with it as he uses words that could be of religious context to be heard more mainstream.

In recalling something I read about him in other quotes in other lectures from him, I visualize a person who is not wanting to live for others he never met, but for moments he is living in present in his surroundings.  Somewhere else I recall reading that he is sick in spirit.  I picture that he is not content on how society guides him to be as a person.

In regards to how Germany interests me, I would write that this Country was a raw place for many years.  People expressed freely their desires.  Unfortunately, I view this world where good and evil exists and clash.  I would never want to meet a person with this perspective.  I would in my opinion be like meeting evil.  Germany however, is a place of powerful history.  It is truly a unique part of the world where misery and evil were common thing and place.  It is amusing to understand how life can get so out of hand.  Germany is a tourism spot for me one day because it will make me feel something in the air that was once awful see in that era of war and unrest.

Posting of February 14 Lecture Home work 3

Since I see no book or books of reference to pick a quote out of, I am choosing a quote in the text of the lecture/book quote enclosed.
“I have experienced on my body and on my soul that I needed sin very much, I needed lust, the desire for possessions, vanity, and needed the most shameful despair, in order to learn how to give up all resistance, in order to learn how to love the world, in order to stop comparing it to some world I wished, I imagined, some kind of perfection I had made up, but to leave it as it is and to love it and to enjoy being a part of it.—These, oh Govinda, are some of the thoughts which have come into my mind.”
This quote explained that Siddhartha became more wise and philosophical because he took it upon himself to experience the view point of a beautiful world, a lustful world, a business world, childhood of innocence world, an isolated world, distant world from his world, that all started with his own world when he was a child. He basically concludes theory of Nihilism that focuses on living and not resisting and the dada perspective in terms of a collage that he builds mentally that explains itself with the analogy of the river. He is also using the different individual with the universal world or the unity of opposites in the context of his experiences. He saw that nothing really changed. He just realized that he lived to know what live can be for him. 

Posted on February 15 Lecture from February 7 home work 2

Albie Llada                                                                                                                                             February 15, 2015

Professor Murdaco                                                                                                                                                 Nihillism

Home Work 2

choose a passage from the "Dada Manifesto" by Hugo Ball and 2) choose one of the artists from either expressionism, dadaism, or new objectivity.

"Dada Manifesto" by Hugo Ball

Quote for Dada Manifesto. I found this on Wikipedia.

“Dada is the heart of words”

For written assignments choose a specific piece of the text that you want to quote. Write out the quote. Then interpret the quote, what is the meaning of this quote, why is the author saying this? Then explain why you chose this quote, do you agree or disagree? Did the quote make you think about something or challenge you? Does it relate to anything going on in the present?

I believe that the quote “Dada is the heart of words” is stating that in the pictures of art, Dada is simply the explanation of nothing. It is then and there.  The word has no meaning.  This is the same concept as Nihilism. You see something and it has no bearing on anything. Basically, the word is just a sound.  It just sound like something that isn’t really happening now. I chose this quote because it was straightforward with what you can get with its definition in the Manifesto. The sound is the heartbeat of this words and of many words.  It is simply an example of just its’ appearance and sound.  You are saying the word, but you are saying nothing.  I don’t agree with the term because it still stamps an image of a mixed idea of objects in the art.  You can still identify time, culture, and society’s interest in art. It makes me think of how our street corners were designed to make us identify with where we live.  There is supposed to be a consistency of appearance in our society. Obviously, Nihilism with its word “dada” take on the same point of view.  It is like the president’s speech on change.  It means nothing because our lives remain the same.  In terms of how I relate to it today in my life, I am still going look the same, regardless of a portrait in time in my own eyes.  I am still me.

 The trauma of the war however created an entirely new form of artistic expression, known as Dadaism.

These picture are from your lecture

3) your interpretation of the piece, try to describe in as much detail as you can the physical appearance of the piece (how does it look, what kind of techniques are being used, what kind of colors, light etc are used, what kind of actions are going on) and the meaning of the piece what is it trying to say, what themes does it address, especially paying attention to nihilistic themes.

Use the Modern Art Timeline link on the blog for assistance. Choose three examples from one or more of the artists, and try to depict what is going on in the piece, and what meaning it may have, especially drawing attention to how nihilistic themes show up in these pieces or how it reflects social conditions.

Professor For this assignment, I have no link to this art you want to me write about.. Therefore, I am using the art from lecture

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"Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic," Hannah Höch,  

1919

I see nothing but images of animals, machine parts, people thinking, and people looking like the way a dog might look at you.  Not understanding anything.  It is like you can’t take anything away from it from the perspective of expressions.

November 1, 1889 – May 31, 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage

Raoul Hausmann, a member of the Berlin Dada movement. Höch's involvement with the Berlin Dadaists began in earnest in 1919.

ABCD," Raoul Hausmann, 1923-2"4

In this image I see meaningless numbers, hands, letters, currency, and face with letter clinging on painter’ teeth.  It seems like there is an expression of being consumed in crazy world of meaningless information in the context of numbers and letters.

Wikipedia.

Raoul Hausmann (July 12, 1886 – February 1, 1971) was an Austrian artist and writer. One of the key figures in Berlin Dada, his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry and institutional critiques would have a profound influence on the European Avant-Garde in the aftermath of World War I.

"Adolf the Superman: Swallows Gold and Spouts Junk," John Heartfield, 1932

The wording of the portrait of Adolf Hitler along with the picture itself saying that Hitler knew nothing on how to make his cause mean anything.  It was nothing but garbage.  There was no vision because vision is not real.  You just do “dada”. Nonsense and with no purpose. Wealth was not anything of meaning. I guess in terms of color, the picture is kind of gold in the sense that his world appears in the color gold.

John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was an artist. He was a pioneer in the use of art as a political weapon. Some of his photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statements. Heartfield also created book jackets for authors such as Upton Sinclair, as well as stage sets for such noted playwrights as Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator.

In 1917, Heartfield became a member of Berlin Club Dada, Heartfield later became active in the Dada movement, helping to organize the Erste Internationale Dada-Messe (First International Dada Fair) in Berlin in 1920. Dadaists were the young lions of the German art scene, provocateurs who disrupted public art gatherings and ridiculed the participants. They labeled traditional art trivial and bourgeois