Dada Movement

Dada

'Dada is what you can make out of yourself' -  Hausman 1968. The Dada movement was created during a protest in Zurich. It was a political protest as well a protest in the world of art. Immigrants were protesting against the war but they also wanted to change the mentality of that time. Art was included in this light. The killings of Wold War One caused the protesters to rebel and devote themselves to the fine arts and Zurich. They expressed their emotions and devotion by singing,painting and writing poems. They even glued themselves together. Dada became an anti art form and dadaists were the protesters against those people who were powerful in art. The Dadaists wanted to destroy the meaning of art and what it stands for. 

Hugo Ball/ Sound Poem - Karawane, 1916

Dada avoided the theories and methods of art and gave importance to the people that viewed it. It was the viewer who decided what there artists were trying to interpret. Sound poems and masks were created which they used in theatre to express their madness. Their works were made up of surrealism, modernism and social realism. The result of all this brought a debate that the Dada movement was the start of postmodern art.

Reference: Hans Richter, H.R, 1997, Dada:Art and Anti Art ( World of Art),Thames & Hudson