What is the Dada and surrealism movement about and how did they start

Dadaism is both an artistic and literary movement which sprung from the internal realizations of artistic and literary thinkers during the First World War . It originated in Zurich Switzerland under the influence of Tristan Tzara , Jean Arp , Hugo Ball and Hans Richter to name a few . It is their direct defiance to the bourgeois class and the rise of capitalism which they consider as the major factor that triggered World War I . The official establishment of the group was declared through what was referred to as the Dada Manifesto in 1916 at Cabaret

Voltaire . A portion of the manifesto states the following

I shall be reading poems that are meant to dispense with conventional language , no less , and to have done with it . I don 't want words that other people have invented . I want my own stuff , my own rhythm and vowels and consonants too , matching the rhythm and all my own

It is a call for freedom of expression and rejection of categories and labels which are dictated by society . It is a revolution towards artistic and literary liberation and is criticized for its non-conventional , chaotic and expressive approach which greatly shocked society . After four years of making its presence felt not only in Switzerland but also in other parts of Europe , Dadaism felt its decline In its decline , a new movement emerged - surrealism

Surrealism no doubt had its roots in Dadaism . It shares with its angst against conventionalism yet practiced a peculiar way in presenting artistic...