Whilst looking through some books in the central library, I came across “Art history” by Paul Duro & Michael Greehalgh. I found this book easy to manage; its layout was simplistic and not too heavy in its section.
I always thought Dada was another artist along side Picasso and Rembrandt. I was surprised to read it was an anti art movement of the early 1900’s.
The name Dada (to represent the movement) is said to have been selected randomly from the dictionary. It actually means hobbyhorse or Gee-gee in French.
Seeking refuge from the First World War, Dada was founded by a poet (Tristan Tzara), artist (Hans Arp) and writer (Hugo Ball).
The style of Dada is anti-rational, challenging the values of beauty in art at the time. Random object juxtaposed to each other would shock the viewer. Marcel Duchamp’s work in 1913 of a bicycle fork with front wheel mounted upside-down on a wooden stool was one such piece of the time. Today this type of art would not be thought of as different or controversial.
The Dada movement developed into the birth of the Surrealism movement by 1923.
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