Defied expectation the world had for art. Representation of the exact opposite that art stood for.

Art was
concerned of the traditional aesthetics, DADA ignored them.

Dada was a reaction of the first world war and all of the anger frustration and conflict that went with it. It was an
anti-art movement.

Amidst the war WWI this curious movement called Dada sprung up around the world! Dada's one of those art
movements that seems to really confuse everyone... And that's just the way they wanted it!

Dada was designed to be a war protest movement and awake a search for a new morality

During WW, many artists left their homes and fled to Swittzerland and in 1916, the poet Hugo Ball made a deal
with a Zurich bar owner that he would increase the beer and sausage sales if he would let Hugo Bal transform
his establishment into a literary café called THE Carabet Voltaire. Soon artists both foreign and local would
gather at Cabaret Voltaire forming the collection of independent, like minded thinkers and this is where Dada
begins to form.

Origin of the name Dda is unclear, somebelieve its just a nonsensical word. Others believe its from
RoMANIAN ARTists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco’s frequents use of the word DA DA which means in
Romanian means yes yes. Another legend says that they took a French german dictionary, stabbed it with a
knife. And the knife just happened to point to “dada” which in French is “hobby horse”

The movement encompassed a wide range of practices, including visual arts, poetry, literatutr, theatre, art
manifestos, art theory, graphic design and concentrated its anti war politics through rejection of the prevailing
standards in art through anti-art cultural works.

The movement spread almost simulataneously to New York, and then to Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Cologne and
Hanover. By the early twenties, it was pretty much burned out or subsumed into Surrealism or other practices
but its short life was witnessed across the world through these nomadic and passionate Dada artists