Dada

Examples of Dada in the following topics:

• Dada and Surrealism

  • The origin of the name Dada is unclear.
  • Dada began in Zurich in 1916 Key figures in the Dada movement included Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp and Raoul Hausmann, among others.
  • While broad, the Dada movement was unstable.
  • Some theorists argue that Dada was the beginning of postmodern art.
  • This poster for a Dada soiree references the medium of collage.

• Art Movements of the 1920s

  • Art Deco was a dominant design style of the 1920s artistic era that also was influenced by the Dada, Expressionist and Surrealist movements.
  • In art, the movements known as Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism all played major roles in reconfiguring the focus and perception not only of visual arts, but also literature, drama and design.
  • Dada began in Zurich during World War I and became an international phenomenon, although it was initially an informal movement intended to protest the outbreak of World War I and the bourgeois, nationalist and colonialist interest that Dadaists believed were root causes of the conflict.
  • Dada artists met and formed groups of like-minded peers in Paris, Berlin, Cologne, and New York City who engaged in activities such as public gatherings, demonstrations and publication of art and literary journals.
  • Arising from Dada activities during World War I and centered in Paris, Surrealism was a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s.

• Surrealism

  • Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris.
  • World War I scattered the writers and artists who had been based in Paris, and in the interim many became involved with Dada, believing that excessive rational thought and bourgeois values had brought the conflict of the war upon the world.
  • After the war, when they returned to Paris, the Dada activities continued.
  • Back in Paris, Breton joined in Dada activities and started the literary journal Littérature along with Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault.

• Using Art

  • Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany.
  • Hoch's Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, is an example of art resulting from the Dadaism movement.

• Performance Art

  • Western cultural theorists trace performance art to early 20th century avant-garde movements such as Russian Constructivism, Futurism and Dada.
  • The Dada movement led the way with its unconventional poetry performances, often at the Cabaret Voltaire, by the likes of Richard Huelsenbeck and Tristan Tzara.

• Process Art

  • It has roots in Performance Art, the Dada movement and, more traditionally, the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock.

• Contemporary Art

  • With the introduction of the use of industrial artifacts in art came movements such as Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism as well as techniques such as collage and art forms such as cinema and the rise of reproduction as a means of creating artworks.

• New Media for Art

  • From about the mid-1960s into the 1970s, performance art often derived from concepts of visual art, with respect to Antonin Artaud, Dada, the Situationists, Fluxus, Installation art, and Conceptual Art.

• Primitivism and Cubism

  • Particular offshoots beyond France included the movements of Futurism, Suprematism, Dada, Constructivism and De Stijl, which all developed in response to Cubism.

• Neue Sachlichkeit

  • The verists developed Dada's abandonment of any pictoral rules or artistic language into a "satirical hyperrealism," as termed by Raoul Hausmann, and of which the best known examples are the graphical works and photo-montages of John Heartfield.