DADAISM

Fountain The Art Critic Da-Dandy

Marcel Duchamp
1916-1924 Raoul Hausmann Hannah Höch
Switzerland, Paris, New York
 Dada was an art movement
formed during the First World War
in Zurich in negative reaction to
the horrors and folly of the war. DADAISM
The art, poetry and performance
produced by dada artists is often
satirical and nonsensical in nature.

Da-Dandy by Hannah Höch

DADAISM

• Began as an anti-art movement as a response to the violence

and trauma of WWI.
• Techniques were unconventional, oftentimes employing the
“chance technique” where found objects, by chance, are
composed to produce art.
• “Dada” literally means “hobby horse” and “father,” “Dada”.
• Involved the visual arts, literature – poetry, art manifestoes, art
theory – theatre, and graphic design and concentrated its
anti-war politics.
The Art Critic by Raoul Hausmann
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Marcel Duchamp

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SURREALISM
1924

Paris
 Founded by the poet André Breton in
Paris in 1924, Surrealism was an artistic
and literary movement which was
active through World War II.
Surrealism’s goal was to liberate
SURREALISM
thought, language, and human
experience from the oppressive
boundaries of rationalism by
championing the irrational, the poetic
and the revolutionary.

Clairvoyance (La Clairvoyance) by René Magritte

SURREALISM

• Influenced by Dadaism

• Automatism, a practice that is akin to free association or a

stream of consciousness, gave the Surrealists the means to
produce unconscious artwork.

• It exerted enormous impact on the cultural life of many

countries in the interwar years and later.

Metamorphosis of Narcissus by Salvador Dalí

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