dadaAshley Howes

The dada movement began around 1915 and continued

until about 1923. For many it was an anti-war (World War I)

movement protesting traditional beliefs of art.

The artists were shocked by the war, and wanted to produce something shocking.

They wanted to be different and produce things that were different.

According to the artists, dada

was not real art, it was anti-art –

meant to be everything

opposite of what art stood for

Dada was a movement in visual art, but also literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic

design.

The dada movement

developed in European

countries as well as in America – mostly in New York.

The art coming out of

New York tended to be

more whimsical and less about the violence that

was happening in

Europe.

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Interpretation of dada is meant to be entirely dependent on the viewer – you decide!

Many people think that at a meeting in 1916 a paper knife was stuck into a French-German dictionary and was pointing to the word “dada”

French: “hobbyhorse”German: “nothing at all”A child’s nonsense word – meaningless babble

• Some prolific artists are: • Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)• readymades, and helped form American branch of the dada

movement• Max Ernst (1891-1976)• an early Dadaist… helped form the Germany dada group• Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971)• Raoul Hausmann was the cofounder of the Berlin Dada movement in• 917, and the creator of photomontage in the following year.• Man Ray (1890-1976)• While living in New York City, with his friend Marcel Duchamp, he formed the American branch of the

Dada movement, which began in Europe as a radical rejection of traditional art.