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Marcel Janco,(1917) Bel a Zurich at https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-janco

Dada

Hannah Höch, (1919-20) 

Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/32535532@N07/3179940950

Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich as a negative reaction to the horrors and absurd of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature. (http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/dada)

 

Involved in this movement was primarily visual arts, poetry, theatre, literature, graphic design, manifestos, art theory. They were anti- bourgeois (against the middle / capitalism Class, in favour to the proletariat Class) and anti war (movement against war and in favour to pacifism).

The Dada movement began around 1916 where artists would meet in order to discuss art and vent their spleen about the war. Those gatherings happened at the Cafe Voltaire in Zurich and some of the artists involved were Hugo Ball and Tristan Tzara.

Artists:  Marcel Duchamp / Francis Picabia / Kurt Schwitters 

Marcel janco, Mouvement Dada, poster (1918) at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/69184488@N06/10315823424

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* Research by Fernanda Prata for NSCD

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