10 Examples of Dadaism

Dadaism

The Dadaism (or Dada movement) was an artistic and cultural movement that emerged with the intention of rebelling against literary and artistic conventions.

Like the rest of the artistic avant-gardes, Dadaism questioned everything established: the cultural tradition, its institutions, its norms, traditions, the concept of beauty, the formats and limits of artistic disciplines and even teachers historical. This movement was considered as a form of "anti-art", due to its spirit of opposition and defiance of the established.

It is not clear what the name means Dadaist, although it is believed that it refers to the first babbling of a baby, or to the only thing that the French understood of the Russian language (gives means yes").

Dadaism spread to the fields of literature, the sculpture, the painting and even music, but also to the ideological sphere: Dadaism was a way of life that set out to go against accepted values.

Influences of Dadaism

The rupture that marked Dadaism was the starting point for other movements. For example, Dadaist poetry, proposed a return to the infinite and unrestricted language, laying the foundations for what would be surrealism.

In the visual arts, his fight against canonical art values ​​was the precedent for the so-called pop art. In Germany, Dadaism began photomontage (the combination of texts and cut-out images) thanks to Raoul Hausmann.

Characteristics of Dadaism

Examples of Dadaism

1. The Literature (Poem by Hugo Ball)

Vauvert I am, the great illusionist.
Hundreds of flames surround my sight.
I kneel on altars of sand,
Violet stars adorn my clothes.
The time from my mouth comes off,
my eyes and ears apprehend men.

I am from the abyss of the false prophet,
that behind the wheels of the sun parapet.
From the sea invoked in horns of fury,
I fly in the mist of prayers of injury.
The eardrum struck hard,
cascades of corpses I take care of.

I am the secret of mocking heretics,
a king of vowels and braggarts.
Hysteria clemens I sang without worry,
in each figure of debauchery.
A poet, a joker, a writer,
I sow words, fallacious outburst.

1. Marcel Duchamp's fountain

In 1917 Duchamp took a urinal, signed it with the pseudonym R. Mutt and presented it in a museum. The aim was to show that any object removed from its usual context and inserted into an artistic context can be considered art. Thus he raised the arbitrariness of art as an institution.

1. THE M E J O R P A V I M E N T O T A M B I E N E S B E N D I C I O N R O J A

Piles stacked on the floor:
how sweet Ninalla's lips suck Pommery greno first
Minkoff, a purebred Russian, gets lost in a shortcut
Palms sway around: perky blond used breasts.
/Global. Bland
Swallow of wine (length: 63 centimeters) spit into nostrils
/ of red tones. What in!!
Well, he's brave in a group, Kuno whispers to the plump ass.
Ball, from which the sweaty forearm is frayed.
Head-bowed, compelling: Sibie naturally gave a
huge scream.
Hemiglobos rise
A flaming pedal glides charmingly over an abdomen
elsewhere caressing.

(Poem by Walter Serner)

1. "The heart to gas", by Triztan Tzara, is a work of dramatic literature in which the characters are six parts of the human body, each with its own personality, opinions and feelings.

1. LHOOQ is a work by Marcel Duchamp in which a reproduction of La Gioconda (painting by Leonardo Da Vinci) intervenes, painting mustaches, and also adding the letters L H O O Q, which when read aloud, in French, the sound is the same as when saying “she has heat in her ass". This is one of the examples of the rebellion against what were considered the quasi-sacred copies of the history of art.

1. Around a red mouth, collage by Hanna Höch. The artist was the first Dadaist, although because she was a woman she was frequently discriminated against by the male Dadaists. However, she was later claimed by art history as one of the first to use the visually critical power of photomontage and collage.

1. The approximate man (Tzara)

"Time drops small inches behind it
mow the fine molecules in the water meadows
dominate the air pockets through your jungle
cut the worm of the wave and each half is born full
of light a butterfly
in the volcano it is strung along a violin note
curls the errant cut of glass in the fine hours of
transparency
there where our dreams stir the song
delicacy of light "

1. AND HIT AND HIT AND HIT (poem by Jean Arp)

and keep hitting and again
and so on
and once twice three times up to a thousand
and start again with more force
and hit the big multiplication table and the little table
to multiply
and it hits and hits and hits
page 222 page 223 page 224 and so on to page 299
turn to page 300 and continue to page 301 to page 400
and hit this one time forward twice backward three times
up and down four times
and hit the twelve months
and the four seasons
and seven days a week
and the seven tones of the scale
and the six feet of the iambs
and the even numbers of the houses
and hit
and hit it all together
and the account is done
and give one.

1. Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel

This work is a bicycle wheel on a wooden stool and is considered the first kinetic sculpture, that is, a work with movement.

1. The merry widow, Marcel Duchamp (1920)

It is a window with the glasses covered in black. The window function (see through it) no longer exists.