Dada

Dada, or Dadaism is an art movement that encompassed visual arts, poetry, theater, etc. Dada aimed to ridicule and protest what it saw as the meaninglessness of the modern world, especially war, society, and government. Dada art often appears chaotic or nonsensical, and challenges viewers to question "is this art?" The Dada movement began in response to the terrors and insanity of World War I and it's aftermath, and the movement died out by the end of World War II. Many Dada artists were either forced to flee Europe to avoid death or persecution, or they were killed during the war. Some died in death camps, persecuted for creating what the Nazi's called "Degenerate Art."

Dada was more of a philosophy for creating art than it was a style, but techniques of collage, using ready-mades, and assemblage are now a part of art making due to Dada. Take a look below at some examples of Dada art: Bicycle Wheel Marcel Duchamp, French/American || Cut With the Dada Kitchen Knife Through The Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919 Hannah Hoch || Indestructible Object (Or Object to be Destroyed), 1923 Man Ray, American || Collage With Squares, Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1917 Jean Arp French/Swiss || Cloud Shepherd, 1953 Jean Arp, French/Swiss || Dada Siegt, 1920 Raoul Hausmann ||  ||
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Dada [|Basics of Dada], info at the Guggenheim , info at ArtLex , galleries at MoMA, info at the Artchive ,

Jean Arp at the Guggenheim ,

Marcel Duchamp at the MoMA ,