A movement in art and literature founded in Switzerland in the early 20th century that ridiculed contemporary culture and conventional art with an antimilitaristic and anti-aesthetic attitude influenced by the horrors of World War I. It extolled the irrational, the absurd, the nihilistic and the nonsensical. Example-the reproduction of Mona Lisa adorned with a moustache. The movement is regarded as the precursor of Surrealism. In addition, some critics regard Happenings, a movement incorporating environment and spectators as active and important ingredients in the production of random events, as a recent development of Dada. Examples-Duchamp, Man Ray, Hoch, Miro and Picasso.
Fr.- "hobbyhorse"] - Meaningless name given to an anti-art movement. In Zurich in 1916, First World War refugees used nonsense text, performances and abstract art to criticize the pretense of freedom, democracy and the power of reason of the Western Civilization that produced the devastation of war.
A provocative and playful European art movement following World War I - characterized by seemingly random, unstructured, and "anti-aesthetic" creativity - that was briefly but deeply influential in poetry, painting, and theatre.
an anti-art movement which emerged in Europe in 1916 as a reaction against the antihuman calamity of World War I. It continues today when artists interpret irrational and nihilistic social forces by creating ridiculous and ridiculing sensory images.
a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty
A nihilistic, anti-art, anti-everything art movement resulting from the social, political, and psychological dislocations of World War I. The movement, which literally means hobbyhorse, is important historically as a generating force for Surrealism. The Dada movement began in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916.
revolutionary art movement at its peak in the 1920s, whose collages, performances and public readings of nonesense poetry called all existing cultural values into question.
(French, hobby horse, a word picked at random from a dictionary) An antiestablishment art movement during World War I expressing outrage at the condition of the world at the time and cynicism and rebellion toward traditional art forms; Hans Arp, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp among others were members of the movement.
A movement that emerged during World War I in Europe that purported to be anti-everything, even anti-art. Dada poked fun at all the established traditions and tastes in art with works that were deliberately shocking, vulgar, and nonsensical.
a controversial art movement begun in Germany in the early 20th century. Works reflected cynicism toward social values and tradition. The artists employed unusual methods and materials in their works. Marcel Duchamp's photograph of the Mona Lisa with a mustache is one example of the Dada movement's creations.
A movement in art and literature, founded in Switzerland in the early twentieth century, which ridiculed contemporary culture and conventional art. The Dadaists shared an antimilitaristic and antiaesthetic attitude, generated in part by the horrors of World War I and in part by a rejection of accepted canons of morality and taste.
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, which concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works.