Cutting the art history in half

Thanks to the creative mind of Man Ray art is no longer fields of flowers and portraits. Marcel Duchamp started his career as a traditional watercolor painter, in time his art transformed to more abstract works including cubeism. Man Ray and Art histories big break came in form of a urinale in 1917. An object seen and used everyday became art when taken out of its element and placed in an unconventional way. The process of decontextualization, adding elements together to change form of object, opened a new world of art. Also getting it's start during this time is dada, an anti art anti war movement lead by Tristan Tzara. Laying the groundwork for performance art, surrealism and abstract art the dada played a large part in the revolution of art.