Dada

The Dada movement was started in Zurich, Swaziland but also it was spread to these countries as well to France, Germany, Spain and also to the U.S. The Dada movement was started in around 1916 and continues until about the 1920. The artists of this movement were known through the World War I which it was a terrible thing. The Dadaists made also a protest through their art and the war and also the current culture. We also  can see that Raoul Hausmann’s the medical head shows a man who cannot think for himself but the thing is that  he can accepts everything he is told. We can see that he don’t have an expression which he has a wooden head with the tight lips and also eyes. This medical man will not argue and will also not share his opinion. According what the Dadaists said is that if the culture is stripped down it could be rebuilt.

 The Dadaist made a chaos because of the WWI culture by the instance of calling a urinal a fountain and putting it in the display which was shown by Marcel Duchamp. Also the Dadaist artists took the common objects and also created art with all these objects, they also brought out the beauty of the everyday world but they also ignored it. Marcel Duchamp was also poked fun at the masters which was by “reworking” Mona Lisa. The Dadaists also paved away from the other art movements which are as the Surrealism. Also the movements of the Dadaists were also changed with the responsibility of the rebuilding it is because the Dadaists stripped it away.

We also can see that the abstraction and the expressionism were the influence of the Dadaism which was followed by the cubism and also by futurism. 

Raoul Haussmann Mechanical Head, 1920 Wood, leather and aluminum, DADA

Fountain, photograph of sculpture by Marcel Duchamp, 1917

Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919,

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