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  1. Dadaism - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Dadaist artists expressed their discontent with violence, war, and nationalism, and were close to the radical far-left. The whole point behind Dadaism was to prove that anything could be art if the artist …

  2. Dada | Definition & History | Britannica

    Jan 9, 2026 · Dada, nihilistic and antiaesthetic movement in the arts that flourished primarily in Zürich, Switzerland; New York City; Berlin, Cologne, and Hannover, Germany; and Paris in the early 20th …

  3. Dada Movement Overview and Key Ideas | TheArtStory

    Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war.

  4. What is Dada? - MoMA

    Dada’s subversive and revolutionary ideals emerged from the activities of a small group of artists and poets in Zurich, eventually cohering into a set of strategies and philosophies adopted by a loose …

  5. What is Dadaism — Movement, Style, and Artists Explained

    Sep 18, 2022 · Dadaism is an art movement which arose in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland, and lasted until the mid 1920s. The movement was firmly planted within the avant-garde, and staunchly rejected any …

  6. A brief history of Dada - Christie's

    Feb 26, 2024 · How Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp made Dada an art movement that mocked Europe's post-WW1 artistic and social conventions

  7. Dada, an introduction – Smarthistory

    Abstract art and Theosophy Who created the first abstract artwork? Representation and abstraction: looking at Millais and Newman Dada

  8. A Brief History of Dada - Smithsonian Magazine

    Dada’s last hurrah was sounded in Paris in the early 1920s, when Tzara, Ernst, Duchamp and other Dada pioneers took part in a series of exhibitions of provocative art, nude performances,...

  9. Dadaism - What Is the Meaning of the Meaninglessness of Dada Art?

    May 1, 2021 · Dadaism was as untraditional in its output as it was in its material use. Works of Dada art range from photography to painting, sculpture, performance art, collage, and poetry. Through these …

  10. Dadaism - Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

    Cologne Dada (1919–22) emerged as a complex double pivot between wartime and postwar Dada with a later turn from Dada to Surrealism. Dada was both stimulated and suppressed by the dire …