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What is Dadaism?

• The Dada movement began in Zurich in the mid-


1910s, invented by refugee artists and intellectuals
from European capitals beset by World War I. 
• Dada art included music, literature, paintings,
sculpture, performance art, photography, and puppetry,
all intended to provoke and offend the artistic and
political elite.
• Dada was influenced by cubism, expressionism, and
futurism, but grew out of anger over what its
practitioners perceived as an unjust and senseless war.
THE IDEAS OF DADAISM
Three ideas were basic to the Dada movement—
spontaneity, negation, and absurdity—and those three
ideas were expressed in a vast array of creative chaos.
FAMOUS
DADA ARTIST
Marcel
Duchamp
Man Ray
Raoul
Hugo Ball
Hausmann
Famous Dada
Artwork
Marcel Duchamp,
Fountain, 1917

Raoul Hausmann,
Marcel Duchamp,
Mechanical Head
Bicycle Wheel,
(The Spirit of our
1913
Time), 1920

Man Ray, Ingres’s Hugo Ball,


Violin, 1924 Karawane, 1916
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917
Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel,
1913
Man Ray, Ingres’s Violin, 1924
Hugo Ball, Karawane, 1916
Raoul Hausmann, Mechanical Head
(The Spirit of our Time), 1920
SOURCE

 What is dadaism, dada art, or a


dadaist? | Artland Magazine
 Dada Art: History of Dadaism (1
916–1923) (thoughtco.com)

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