Dadaism

Dada !
born out of disgust
a style of art like Cubism or Fauvism

a protest movement with an anti-

establishment manifesto
 Dada
a protest MOVEMENT with an anti-establishment
manifesto
 ART MOVEMENT

First World War

Switzerland, Zurich
 ART MOVEMENT

First World War

Switzerland. Zurich

Cabaret Voltaire
 ART MOVEMENT

First World War

Switzerland. Zurich

Cabaret Voltaire
artists could exhibit their
work there among cutting-
edge poetry, music, and
dance.
 ART MOVEMENT

Negative Reaction
horrors and folly of the war

Anti -War
 “Revolted by the butchery of the 1914
World War, we in Zurich devoted
ourselves to the arts. While the guns
rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted,
made collages and wrote poems with all
our might.”
—Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp
 ART MOVEMENT

Negative Reaction
horrors and folly of the war

Anti -War
devoted themselves to the
arts
anti-bourgeois and had political
affinities with the radical left
 Dada
𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔

CONFUSION
Art was concerned with
traditional aesthetics
Art was to appeal to
sensibilities
Art was concerned with traditional
aesthetics
Dada completely ignored them

Art was to appeal to sensibilities

Dada was intended to offend and
provoke
Important feature of Dada

CHANCE
Important feature of Dada
ART

LIFE

CHANCE
Important feature of Dada

CHANCE
control
 Dada Artists
The art, poetry and performance produced
is often SATIRICAL and NONSENSICAL in
nature.
Dada Artists: Aim
to destroy traditional values in art

to create a new art to replace the

old
 Futurists

Dada
Artists
Dada Artists: Mission

to have no
mission at all
Why Dada?
Why Dada?
Why Dada?
Hugo Ball
He was a writer and the FOUNDER
of dada. In 1916 he started a
satirical night-club in Zurich, the
Cabaret Voltaire.
 Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada
Dada became an international movement and
eventually formed the basis of surrealism in Paris
after the war.
 Other artists

Marcel Duchamp Francis Picabia Kurt Schwitters

Born: 28 July 1887, Born: 22 January 1879, Born: 20 June 1887,
Blainville-Crevon, France Paris, France Hanover, Germany

Died: 2 October 1968, Died: 30 November 1953, Died: 8 January 1948,

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Paris, France Kendal, United Kingdom
 Other artists

Raoul Hausmann Man Ray

Born: 27 August 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Born: 12 July 1886, Vienna, Austria United States
Died: 1 February 1971, Limoges, France Died: 18 November 1976, Paris, France
Marcel Duchamp
One of the most iconic forms to
emerge amidst this flourish of
Dadaist expression was the READY-
MADE, a sculptural form perfected
by Marcel Duchamp.
Ready-Made
𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎
𝑴𝑨𝑵𝑼𝑭𝑨𝑪𝑻𝑼𝑹𝑬𝑫 𝑶𝑩𝑱𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑺
 Examples of Famous
Dada Artworks
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917)
Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel (1913)
Man Ray’s Ingres’s Violin (1924)
Hugo Ball’s Sound Poem Karawane (1916)
Raoul Hausmann’s Mechanical Head (The
Spirit of our Time) (1920)
Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel (1913)
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917)
Man Ray’s Ingres’s Violin
Hugo Ball’s Sound Poem Karawane (1916)
Raoul Hausmann’s Mechanical Head (The
Spirit of our Time) (1920)
Reception, Downfall,
and Dissemination of
Dadaist Ideals
The bold new approaches of the Dadaists stirred
controversy within contemporary culture.
❖ break from tradition

❖ pursuit of a new mode of expression

❖ to bring the revered world of “fine art”