Dadaism
"The
beginnings of Dada were not
the beginnings of an art,
but of a disgust. Disgust
with the magnificence of
philosophers who for 3ooo
years have been explaining
everything to us (what for?
), disgust with the
pretensions of these
artists-God's-representatives-on-earth,
disgust with passion and
with real pathological
wickedness where it was not
worth the bother; disgust
with a false form of
domination and restriction
*en masse*, that accentuates
rather than appeases man's
instinct of domination,
disgust with all the
catalogued categories, with
the false prophets who are
nothing but a front for the
interests of money, pride,
disease, disgust with the
lieutenants of a mercantile
art made to order according
to a few infantile laws,
disgust with the divorce of
good and evil, the beautiful
and the ugly (for why is it
more estimable to be red
rather than green, to the
left rather than the right,
to be large or small?).
Disgust finally with the
Jesuitical dialectic which
can explain everything and
fill people's minds with
oblique and obtuse ideas
without any physiological
basis or ethnic roots, all
this by means of blinding
artifice and ignoble
charlatans promises." --
Tristan Tzara, 1922
Principle Artists of the Dadaist Movement
| Max Ernst- Germany |
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| Guillaume Apollinaire |
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Marcel Duchamp |
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| Kurt Schwitters |
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| George Grosz |
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| Man Ray |
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"DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles
the young day in her arms." - Hans Arp
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