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Dada Dada. Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war The art poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature Raoul Hausmann The Art Critic 1919–20 Tate.

Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich Switzerland It arose as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war Influenced by other avantgarde movements Cubism Futurism Constructivism and Expressionism its output was wildly diverse ranging from performance art to poetry.

Dada Movement Overview and Key Ideas TheArtStory

Dada ( / ˈdɑːdɑː /) or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avantgarde in the early 20th century with early centres in Zürich Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire (c 1916) New York Dada began c 1915 and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris Dadaist activities lasted until c the mid 1920s Developed in reaction to World War I.

Dada Art: History of Dadaism (1916–1923)

The Birth of DadaThe Ideas of DadaismDada ArtistsArt Styles of The Dada ArtistsSourcesDada was born in Europe at a time when the horror of World War I was being played out in what amounted to citizens&#39 front yards Forced out of the cities of Paris Munich and St Petersburg a number of artists writers and intellectuals found themselves congregating in the refuge that Zurich (in neutral Switzerland) offered By mid1917 Geneva and Zurich were awash in the heads of the avantgarde movement including Hans Arp Hugo Ball Stefan Zweig Tristan Tzara Else LaskerSchuler and Emil Ludwig They were inventing what Dada would become according to writer and journalist Claire Goll out of literary and artistic discussions of expressionism cubism and futurism that took place in Swiss coffeehouses The name they settled on for their movement “Dada” may mean “hobby horse” in French or perhaps is simply nonsense syllables an appropriate name for an explicitly nonsensical art Banding together in a loosely knit group these writers and artists used any public forum th 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 Spontaneity was an appeal to individuality and a violent cry against the system Even the best art is an imitation even the best artists are dependent on others they said Romanian poet and performance artist Tristan Tzara (1896–1963) wrote that literature is never beautiful because beauty is dead it should be a private affair between the writer and himself Only when art is spontaneous can it be worthwhile and then only to the artist To a Dadaist negation meant sweeping and cleaning away the art establishment by spreading demoralization Morality they said has given us charity and pity morality is an injection of chocolate into the veins of all Good is no better than bad a cigarette butt and an umbrella are as exalted as God Everything has illusory importance man is nothing everything is of equal unimportance everyth Important Dada artists include Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968 whose “readymades” included a bottle rack and a cheap reproduction of the Mona Lisa with a mustache and goatee) Jean or Hans Arp (1886–1966 Shirt Front and Fork) Hugo Ball (1886–1947 Karawane the “Dada Manifesto” and practitioner of “sound poetry”) Emmy Hennings (1885–1948 itinerant poet and cabaret chanteuse) Tzara (poet painter performance artist) Marcel Janco (1895–1984 the bishop dress theatrical costume) Sophie Taeuber (1889–1943 Oval Composition with Abstract Motifs) and Francis Picabia (1879–1952 Ici c&#39est ici Stieglitz foi et amour) Dada artists are hard to classify in a genre because many of them did many things music literature sculpture painting puppetry photography body art and performance art For example Alexander Sacharoff (1886–1963) was a dancer painter and choreographer Emmy Hennings was a cabaret performer and poet Sophie Taeuber was a dancer choreographer furniture and t Readymades (found objects reobjectified as art) photomontages art collages assembled from a huge variety of materials all of these were new forms of art developed by Dadaists as a way to explore and explode older forms while emphasizing foundart aspects The Dadaists thrust mild obscenities scatological humor visual puns and everyday objects (renamed as “art”) into the public eye Marcel Duchamp performed the most notable outrages by painting a mustache on a copy of the Mona Lisa (and scribbling an obscenity beneath) and promoting The Fountain a urinal signed R Mutt which may not have been his work at all The public and art critics were revolted—which the Dadaists found wildly encouraging Enthusiasm was contagious so the (non)movement spread from Zurich to other parts of Europe and New York City And just as mainstream artists were giving it serious consideration in the early 1920s Dada (true to form) dissolved itself In an interesting twist this art of protest— Kristiansen Donna M “What Is Dada?” Educational Theatre Journal 203 (1968) 457–62 PrintMcBride Patrizia C “WeimarEra Montage Perception Expression Storytelling” In “The Chatter of the Visible Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany” Ed Patrizia C McBride Ann Arbor UniverVerdier Aurélie and Claude Kincaid “Picabia&#39s QuasiName” RES Anthropology and Aesthetics 63/64 (2013) 215–28 PrintWünsche Isabel “Exile the AvantGarde and Dada Women Artists Active in Switzerland During the First World War” In “Marianne Werefkin and the Women Artists in Her Circle” Brill 2017 48–68 P.

MoMA Dada

The DADA Guard (Fragmentin and Superlife) is a DADADATA/Pro Helvetia/SSR SRG/Docmine production At the Landesmuseum from February 9 to 16 alongside the exhibition Dada Universal The DADA Guard will then tour Europe with stops in Munich Paris Transylvania and more Dada always at your service!.