A century ago, the Dadaist movement exploded into life. It was wild, rangy, and random, with practitioners using found materials to compile deliberately nonsensical artworks.
Dadaism was a reaction to the chaos of the modern world. If existence meant being subject to a ceaseless barrage of information, more than anyone could hope to understand in a lifetime, then why shouldn’t art reflect – or subvert – that confusing reality?
These fucking Garfield homages are basically the same thing all over again.
Uploaded to YouTube a lil’ earlier today by LasagnaCat, this slew of meticulously-crafted videos takes Jim Davis’ unironically iconic comic strip and smashes it with cultural detritus from the past 40 years.
They’re legitimately wild. And there are so many of them. Clock a few of them right here, and try to keep your head from exploding at how well-made they are in comparison to how batshit insane each and every premise is:
If that ain’t enough, catch this avant-garde monstrosity:
If Marcel Duchamp were still kicking, he’d definitely label this a wonderful fucking toilet, hey?
Source and photo: LasagnaCat / YouTube.
