Art History: Dadaism: (1916 - 1924) ... Dada began as an anti-art movement, in the sense that it rejected the way art was appreciated and defined in contemporary art scenes. ... Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, the movement was a response to World War I. It had no unifying aesthetic characteristics but what brought together...
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･ Dada began in Zurich and became an international movement. Or non-movement, as it were. ･ Dada had only one rule: Never follow any known rules. ･ Dada was intended to provoke an emotional reaction from the viewer (typically shock or outra...
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Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manife...
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1918-1922 essay by Tristan Tzar ... Another characteristic of Dada is the continuous breaking off of our friends. They are always breaking off and resigning. The first to tender his resignation from the Dada movement *was myself.* Everybody knows that Dada is nothing.
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Dada: List of artists and index to where their art can be viewed at art museums worldwide. ... Artists by Movement: Dada ... ; Dada was a protest by a group of European artists against World War I, bourgeois society, and the conservativism of traditional thought. Its followers used absurdities and non sequiturs to create...
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History of Dada, bibliography of dadaism, distribution of Dada documents ... On the other hand the "retouched" painted papers of Baargeld and Ernst (Le Roi rouge, 1920) are characteristic of the freedom of spirit of the Cologne dadaists; just as Schwitters' works attest to the obsessional character that this new plastic...
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Extremes in the combining of genres and practices are becoming the main characteristic of current artistic production. Description of these disparate and hybrid elements is very delicate, and any attempt at definition seems invalid.
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Extremes in the combining of genres and practices are becoming the main characteristic of current artistic production. Description of these disparate and hybrid elements is very delicate, and any attempt at definition seems invalid.
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The antithetical formulation reflects a fundamental characteristic of Dadaism, an ambiguity and ambivalence which is quite basic, affecting the very roots of the Dadaistic product. (To say "work of..
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It is those artists, and sadly they are few in number, who did much to keep the energy of Dadaism flowing towards the 21st century. They have one characteristic in common - they have dared to place themselves uncompromisingly, as did all the Dadaists, on the right hand of Kantor's Demarcation Line.
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