Dadaism

The non-art movement

By Nanuka Darsalia
Dada had only one rule
Never follow any known rules
DaDa was born out of pool of avant-
garde painters, poets and poets who
flocked to neutral Switzerland before
and after WWI
• Protesting bourgeois nationalist (denotes the wealthy) and
colonialist interest (essentially, it's the policy and practice of
a power in extending control over weaker peoples and areas)
• Dadaist believed these were the root causes of the war
• Dada contributors sided with the radical left

• REJECTION OF LOGIC The content and concepts

• • PRIZING NON-SENSE focused on anti-war politics with
• IRRATIONALITY nuances in anti-bourgeois
• CELEBRATING THE
AVANT GARDE
• Dada art may often reflect the nation of origins
involvement in the war.
• German Dada art emphasized machine and
military dominance while American Dada art
was more humorous and playful.
 Origin of the word
DADA
there are different speculations
1. • A multicultural nonsense word,
essentially mimicking the first sounds a baby
would make

2. • It originates from the Romanian artist

Tristan Tzara and Marcel Jancos
Frequent use of the words "DADA" meaning
"Ves!" in 'Romanian
3. • During a meeting when a paper knife stuck
into a French-German dictionary happened to
the word "DADA," a French word for
"HOBBYHORSE"
DaDa self-destructed when it was in danger of becoming
“Acceptable”
Influence Based on Artistic Involved Media
Style • Visual Arts
• Abstraction • Literature
• Expressionism Poetry
• Cubism and • Art Manifestos
• To a lesser extent, Futurism. • Art Theory
• Theater
• Graphic Design
Dada represented the opposite of the
traditional conventions of art, where art
was concerned with aesthetics and Dada
was not
ART = APPEALED TO THE SENSIBILITIES
DADA = INTENDED TO OFFEND
 Dada main characteristics

Antipoetic Anti artistic Chaotic

Ironic Aggressive Expontaneous

Jean Arp
• Background: Dada > Surrealism
• Founded the movement Abstraction-Creation
and invented biomorphic sculpture
• His playful amoeba-like forms had a huge impact
on artHe practiced
"automatic" (Free-conscious writin
Francis Picabia
• Background: Dadaism > Surrealist >
Cubism
• Once known as "Papa Dada"
• Known for his Mechanomorph
paintings, which portrayed machine
parts in mock portraits.
• Fascinated by machines as
metaphors for the modern world and
human behavior
 Thanks!
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