Dada Movement

Dada Movement

MOTTO : Question : How many Surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb

Answer : A fish

Art history is a complex dialog of aesthetic actions and counteractions to diverse cultural , socio-economic and political factors . Dada was an arts and literature avant-garde movement which flourished into a very strong paradigmatic revolution from the traditional fashion of thinking and perceiving not only art , but also life itself . It tried to deconstruct all previously established truths about logics , artistic canons , western aesthetic values , conventions and general definitions ' that the Dadaists perceived

to be obsolete in the light of the new century

Dada was an art movement of the early 20th century (it started on 1915-16 and lasted until 1920-22 , and it is not a coincidence that it synchronized with a shocking global event , WWI : it started and respectively ended two years after this worldwide conflict . Dada was itself an international phenomenon with members from the whole Europe and North America , and it aimed to expose and subvert traditionally academic artistic norms , as well as the bourgeois notions of what is worth to be called art and hence be shown in museums

The first exhibitions ' of the Dada pioneers were at the Cabaret Voltaire in France , an unconventional gallery and theatre scene where German playwright Hugo Ball , Alsatian poet-painter Jean Arp , Romanian artists Marcel Janco and Tristan Tzara , German poet Richard Huelsenbeck produced their spontaneous plays , poems , art and lectures together with engaging painters like Max Ernst , Giorgio de Chirico , Paul Klee , Wassily Kandinsky or Pablo Picasso , all of whom continued the Dada revolution in their individual and unique manners , reinventing the ideas and designs of conventional art exhibits into what today is known as Abstract and Modern Art

The Manifesto

The Dada movement made itself popular by disseminating art manifestoes (Dada , edited by Hugo Ball or Tristan Tzara , journals and publications by organizing public protests , demonstrations or gatherings on a variety of expressions such as visual arts , random poetry and automatic dictation , graphic design (collages and ready-mades ) and theatre Tristan Tzara , a Romanian poet , proclaimed in the Dada manifesto to which extend everything was to be re-evaluated from zero : Philosophy is the question : from which side shall we look at life , God , the idea or other phenomena . Everything one looks at is false . I do not consider the relative result more important than the choice between cake and cherries after dinner . The system of quickly looking at the other side of a thing in to impose your opinion indirectly is called dialectics , in other words , haggling over the spirit of fried potatoes while dancing method around it

Dada often employed quite irreverent works and declarations aiming to directly defy academic art and its consumers : according to Hans Arp , a collage Dada artist "The bourgeois regarded the Dadaist as the dissolute monster , a revolutionary villain (that ) thought up tricks to rob the bourgeois of his sleep " What has been known as figurative or high art until then (bourgeois art ) got shredded into...