1. By: Ruel Beresford
D A D A

2. Context
World War One Shattered European Ideals on Progress and Humanity, thus disillusionment ensued
On February in Zurich, Switzerland, Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings opened the Cabaret Voltaire
Run by Artists, for Artists, all of equal standing who would dictate the events of the meeting
By July, Ball created the Manifesto of Dadaism
They were inspired by the absurdity and Childishness that the name represented
This movement would spread to Paris, New York, Cologne, and Hanover, before the artists simply moved on by 1924, to other art movements.

3. Dadaism intended to revolt against
What they Believed caused WWI
Nationalism
Bourgeois Culture
Logic
Authority
Any currently held convention about art or reality

4. Characteristics Readymade objects are often times passed off as art
Dada is irony,” “Dada is anti-art,” “Dada will kick you in the behind” is a self described characterization of this movement.
Dada is mainly concerned with the uprooting traditional forms of art
Thus they semi embraced modernity
Readymade objects are often times passed off as art
Unorthodoxy is the end all of this movement
The collage and photomontage technique evolves during this movement.
Overt mockery of marketing, by using advertisements as jests.
Dada is multimedia, with poetry, plays, art, and sculpture, all encompassed in the movement.
As a movement , its quite witty, with irony a main output in this movement.

5. And Now for the Art

6. Richard Boix, DA-DA (The New York Dada Group) , 1921

7. L.H.O.O.Q, Duchamp, 1919

8. Chinese Nightingale, Max Ernst, 1920

9. The Spirit of our Times, Haussmann, 1921

10. Man Ray, Rayograph, 1922

11. Kurt Schwitters, Merzpicture 46A: The Skittle Picture, 1921

12. And for the most representative piece

13. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917