Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90x144 cm, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Dada was officially not
a movement but a statement it was art for art’s sake.
Dada was a artistic and literary movement that started in Europe during
the time of World War 1, during which artists writers and notable French and
German nationality found themselves congregating in the refuge Zurich, together
these rejects formed a group using public spaces to talk about nationalism,
rationalism, materialism and other -ism which they had felt contributed to this
war, the Dadaists had enough, they said we, who are non-artists, will create
non-art since art and everything else has no meaning . The non-artists agreed
on the name ‘Dada’ some say means “hobby horse” in French and others felt that
it’s just baby talk,mainly chosen this catch phrase since to them it meant the
least of sense.
The non-artists used
an early form of shock art they used scatological humor, visual puns and
everyday objects some even manipulating famous art works, as the public saw
their work and commented on them the Dadaists were further encouraged, as this
movement spread form Zurich to other parts of Europe and New York City
Interestingly the art
of protesting which is a serious matter was perceived delightful, whimsical, colorful
and sarcastic.
If one didn’t know
about the pain and message these men where portraying, it would be fun to see
what these gentlemen were ‘on’ when creating these pieces.
Raoul Hausmann ABCD (Self-portrait) A photomontage from 1923-24Info : Dada - Art History Basics on the Dada Movement - 1916-1923. 2013. Dada - Art History Basics on the Dada Movement - 1916-1923. [ONLINE] Available at: http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm. [Accessed 07 May 2013].
Images : Dada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Dada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada. [Accessed 07 May 2013].
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