DaDaism

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DaDaism

• Existentialism and its influences on modern art

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DaDA The Art Movement

• Artistic and literary movement that began in
  France and Germany in 1914
• A definition Contributors sought to ridicule the
  culture of their time through deliberately absurd
  performances, poetry, and visual art. Dadaists
  embraced the extraordinary, the irrational, and
  the contradictory
• Reaction to the unprecedented brutality of WWI
  and the onset of WWII

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• Artists works were motivated by the belief that
  European values of nationalism, militarism, and
  rational thought were responsible for the horrors
  of the war
• Many artists created works that were playful
  drawings, paintings, and sculptures that depicted
  strange and mysterious machinery- a jab at new
  technology
• Dada became a political movement in protest of
  war. They published magazines, poetry, and
  manifestos
• Many defined Dadaism as nihilistic- rejecting
  all moral values
• But Dadaists demanded that Dada was an
  affirmation of life in the face of death!

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DadaRocking Horse(French, childs word for a
horse)

• Tristan Tzara, French poet and author of the
  Dada Manifesto (1918) proclaimed
• DADA MEANS NOTHING

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DaDa Art

• Hydrometric demonstration of how to kill by
  temperature
• Max Ernst 1920

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• Tatlin at Home
• Raoul Hausmann 1920

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• Switzerland, Birth-Place of Dada
• Or Physiomythological Flood Picture
• Max Ernst and Hans Arp 1928

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• Dadaville
• Max Ernst 1923-24

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