Presentation about DADA and Dadaists

2. WHAT IS DADA ?
Dada began in Switzerland in 1916.
The artists who started it were
against World War They wanted to
rebel against the horrors of war.
Their motto was "Destruction is
also creation" because Dada had
no rules. Dada had no values. Dada
shocked people. The Dada artists
liked to do absurd art. It may be
one of the strangest art styles ever
invented. Dadaists did not even
want to be called an art
movement!

3. HOW WAS DADA CREATED ?
The Dadaists first met at a café in
Zurich. Their leader was named
Tristan Tzara. He was a poet from
Romania. The story goes that
someone took a knife, opened a
dictionary, and stabbed the page.
The knife hit the word dada, so
that is what they named their
group. Some believe that the
term Dada came from a Slavic
word that meant "Yes! Yes!"

4. FAMOUS DADAISTS

5. Jean Arp
Poet and Sculptor
Jean Arp / Hans Arp (16
September 1886 – 7
June 1966) was a
German/French
sculptor, painter, poet
and a founding member
of Dadaism.

7. Marcel Duchamp
Avant-Garde Artist
Marcel Duchamp (28 July
1887 – 2 October 1968)
was a French artist whose
work is most often associated
with the Dadaist and
Surrealist movements.
Considered by some to be one
of the most important artists
of the 20th century,

8. Rose Sélavy

9. Max Ernst
Painter Sculptor Graphic artist Poet
Ernst was one of the primary
pioneers of the Dada
movement and Surrealism.

11. Man Ray
Painter Photographer
Man Ray (August 27, 1890 – November
18, 1976), born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was
an American artist who spent most of his
career in Paris, France. Perhaps best
described simply as a modernist, he was a
significant contributor to both the Dada
and Surrealist movements, although his
ties to each were informal. Best known in
the art world for his avant-garde
photography, Man Ray produced major
works in a variety of media and
considered himself a painter above all.

13. Kurt Schwitters
Collage Artist
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius
Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January
1948) was a German painter who was
born in Hanover, Germany.
Schwitters worked in several genres and
media, including Dada, Constructivism,
Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting,
sculpture, graphic design, typography and
what came to be known as installation art.
He is most famous for his collages, called
Merz Pictures.

15. What Is Dada?
An Art?
Philosophy?
Or State
Religion?
Is DADA Real
Energy?
Or It Is
Nothing At
All?

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