Dada

Dada

Artistic Movements, Periods and styles in 5 Points

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Dada

• Movement created during the First World War by refugee artists in Zurich (Switzerland), in an attitude of rejection of the absurd and tragic prevailing reality.
• Its aim was to break with the dominant aesthetic canons, to make fun of the established order and conventions, and to liberate the artist definitively. It is a liberation movement.
• As it broke with everything established, (they said: “Nothing is sacred. We spit on everything.”), some consider it anti-art.
• They considered that art should be refounded “from scratch.”
• The works, the artists, and the materials used were all diverse. The only things in common were absolute freedom, contradiction, spontaneity, and chaos. There was no precise limit between art and life, which was an important antecedent for pop art, which emerged decades later.

Representative Artists: Duchamp, Hannah Höch, Picabia, Hausmann, Arp, Ernst, Grosz, Schwitters.

Image: Hannah Höch collage

Recommended links:

Fountain (1917), by Marcel Duchamp.

Cabaret Voltaire.

Hannah Höch.

The “Avant-garde” Movements.

Surrealism.

Psychic automatism.

When does Modern Art Start?

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