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  1. Dada | Definition & History | Britannica

    Feb 19, 2026 · Dada, nihilistic and antiaesthetic movement in the arts that flourished primarily in Zürich, Switzerland; New York City; Berlin, Cologne, and Hannover, Germany; and Paris in the …

  2. Dadaism - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Dadaist artists expressed their discontent with violence, war, and nationalism, and were close to the radical far-left. The whole point behind Dadaism was to prove that anything could be art if …

  3. Dada Movement Overview and Key Ideas | TheArtStory

    Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war.

  4. What is Dada? - MoMA

    Dada’s subversive and revolutionary ideals emerged from the activities of a small group of artists and poets in Zurich, eventually cohering into a set of strategies and philosophies adopted by a …

  5. What Is Dadaism and Where Did it Start? - TheCollector

    May 31, 2023 · Dadaism was a seismic art movement from the early 20th century that began in Zurich, before spreading throughout Europe. Dadaism was an avant-garde German art …

  6. A brief history of Dada - Christie's

    Feb 26, 2024 · How Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp made Dada an art movement that mocked Europe's post-WW1 artistic and social conventions

  7. A Brief History of Dada - Smithsonian Magazine

    Dada’s last hurrah was sounded in Paris in the early 1920s, when Tzara, Ernst, Duchamp and other Dada pioneers took part in a series of exhibitions of provocative art, nude performances,...

  8. Dada Art: History of Dadaism (1916–1923) - ThoughtCo

    Nov 26, 2019 · The Dada movement began in Zurich in the mid-1910s, invented by refugee artists and intellectuals from European capitals beset by World War I. Dada was influenced by …

  9. Dada, an introduction – Smarthistory

    Abstract art and Theosophy Who created the first abstract artwork? Representation and abstraction: looking at Millais and Newman Dada

  10. Dadaism | Definitions & Examples of the Dada Art Movement

    Mar 6, 2023 · Dada represents an attack on its own medium, replacing artistic standards with imperfection, resulting in a loud and confrontational aesthetic that reverberates in much music …