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"DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms." - Hans Arp
Dadaism Art Movement
1916-1925
"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
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