Dadaism

Dadaism

Dadaism was an artistic movement that began in the interwar period. It was, among other things, a protest against the barbarism of the War and what Dadaists considered an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society. Its works were characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art.

Dada began not as art; it was anti-art. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. If art is to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strives to have no meaning, they are abstract art works, interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada offends.

 The artists of the Dada movement had become disillusioned by art, art history and history in general. Many of them grown cynical of humanity after seeing what men were capable of doing to each other on the battlefields of Europe. The basis of Dada is nonsense. With the order of the world destroyed by World War I, Dada was a way to express the confusion that was felt by many people as their world was turned upside down.

The arts works of dada were characterized on the basis of law of chance and proved to be anarchic and anti-art. Dadaism took a direct approach to destroy the beliefs of the society.

  

By: Angelina Galvan