1. Da ism ‘The Non-Art Movement’

2. What is DaDaism? “Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20 th century.” After researching into DaDaism I found that it started from the reactions of the horrors of World War One. It was said it started in Zuirch, Swirtzerland (1916), then moving on to Berlin, Germany but however the height of New York Dada was the year before (1915). Defintion of DaDaism :- “A European artistic and literary movement (1916- 1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing work smarked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.”

3. Key Charcteristics of Dada Art Dada had only one rule : Never follow any known rules. Found on :- http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htmhttp://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm Dada was intended to provoke an emotional reaction from the viewer (typically shock or outrage). Dada is a nonsensical to the point of whimsy. Almost all of the people who created it were ferosically serious. Abstraction and Expressionism were the main influences on Dada, followed by Cubism and to a lesser extent, Futurism. There was no predominant medium in Dadaist art. All things from geometric tapestries to glass to plaster and wooden reliefs were fair game. It's worth noting, though, that assemblage, collage, photomontage and the use of ready made objects all gained wide acceptance due to their use in Dada art. For something that supposedly meant nothing, Dada certainly created a lot of offshoots. In addition to spawning numerous literary journals, Dada influenced many concurrent trends in the visual arts (especially in the case ofConstructivism). The best-known movement Dada was directly responsible for is Surrealism. Dada self-destructed when it was in danger of Becoming ‘acceptable’.

4. Key Dates/Times 1916 - 1923 A key date within Dadasim is world war one (1914-1918), it was the main influence of the movement. A conflict which claimed the lives of eight million military personnel and an estimated equal number of civilians. This unprecedented loss of human life was a result of trench warfare and technological advances in weaponry, communication and transportation systems. WW1 QUOTE “The beginnings of Dada,” poet Tristan Tzara recalled, “were not the beginnings of art, but of disgust.”

5. Key Artists within Dadaism. Hans Arp Johannes Baader Hugo Ball Andre Breton Marcel Duchamp Paul Eluard Max Ernst George Grosz Raoul Hausmann John Heartfield Hans Richter Kurt Schwitters

6. Marchel Duchamp - Artist Hugo Ball – Poet Dadaism wasn’t visual art, It was also portrayed within literature as well as sound and music. This is one of the pieces that I personally liked. However I’m not so keen on the urinal, I don’t see the meaning of the image/work and what its supposed to portray. Duchamp's Ready-mades :- Works of art which are made from random objects – literally anything. Illustrating the idea that art can be made from anything. Duchamp's most famous work is the urinal (picture below). It’s a prime example of the Dadaist technique of dislocating objects from their normal context and representing them as art. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7QspfFDdmU Video of Hugo Ball :- “For us, art is not an end in itself,” wrote Dada poet Hugo Ball, “but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in.”