DADAISM

Dadaism or Dada is a post-World

War European artistic and literary
movement (1916-1923) that flouted
conventional aesthetic and cultural
values by producing works marked by
nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.
The term DADA is coined in Zurich in the year 1916
By HUGO BALL and RICHARD HUELSENBECK

Dada means Yes, Yes in Russia; There-there in
Germany, and Hobby horse in French.

CHARACTERI STI CS OF DADAI SM:
Anti-art : Rejection of cultural standards
Ironic
Shock Value : Intentionally shocking
and provoking the audience
Nonsense and Irrational
Uses ready-made objects
Does not follow certain standards
Marcel Duchamps Version of Monalisa
The Fountain
by Marcel Duchamp
The Spirit of our Time By

ABCD
RAOUL HAUSMANN
MAX ERNST
'The Chinese
Nightingale' 1920
(photomontage)

GIFT
'Object to be
Destroyed', 1923
MAN RAY

The Pillars of Society
George Grozs
JOHANNES THEODOR BAARGELD
Typical Vertical Misrepresentation as
a Depiction of the Dada Baargeld'