One Cabaret Voltaire performer, Romanian artist Tristan Tzara, described its nightly shows as “explosions of elective imbecility.” This new, irrational art movement would be named Dada. It got...

As a movement, however, Dadaism proved to be one of the revolutionary art movements in the early twentieth century, born as a response to the modern age. Watch our video overview of the movement and read on to learn more about Dadaism’s key ideas, major dadaist artists, and most famous Dada art. What is Dadaism? The Art Movement Explained.

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.

As World War I exposed the human expense of nationalist propaganda, political maneuvering, and greed, Zurich Dada performers toppled conventions of thought, language, and behavior, thereby staging a mimicry of their war-compromised time and seeking an alternate expression of humanity and intelligence.

2021年5月1日 · Dadaism is one of the most unconventional and Avante-Garde art and cultural movements of the 20th century. Prompted by the European social climate following the First World War, Dadaism rejected wartime politics, bourgeois culture, and capitalist economic system. The name Dada has various meanings in different languages, but also no meaning.

2022年9月18日 · Dadaism is an art movement which arose in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland, and lasted until the mid 1920s. The movement was firmly planted within the avant-garde, and staunchly rejected any norms of the artistic world at the time. Pure Dada rebuffs reason, logic, and rationality in favor of chance.

2010年8月13日 · These latest publications on dada offer the opportunity to reflect further on the interrelations of dada art and human subjectivity, not only to historicize more fully this crucial moment in the interwar period but to consider the ways in which dada’s contributions still reverberate in the present.

2024年12月16日 · Dada, or Dadaism, was an avant-garde movement that began in the early 20th century as a reaction against the horrors of World War I and the absurdities of modern society. Dada was more than just an art movement; it was a cultural revolution that sought to challenge and dismantle traditional aesthetics, logic, and reason.

Infamously called the “anti-art” art movement, Dadaism developed out of disgust and resentment from the bloodshed and horror of World War I, which began in 1914 and ended in 1918. Dadaism’s main purpose was to challenge the social norms of society, and purposefully make art that would shock, confuse, or outrage people.

Dada materialized from the chaos of World War I, a conflict employing trench warfare and advanced weaponry, killing millions of people. Artists and poets of the period believed war degraded social constructs and values, and established corruption, conformity, and violence.