DADA

The DADA movement was not an official movement. DADA was an artistic movement that had started in Europe, during World War 1. Artists from the DADA movement didn't want to be like any other artists. The artists stared to break the rules of design. They had called them selves Non-Artists. DADA arts was colourful, sarcastic and sometimes silly. the artists of the DADA movement had only one rule which was "Never follow any known rule".


Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90×144 cm, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.


Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz

Bibliography:

• 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 16 May 2013].