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.
Influenced by other avant-garde movements - Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism,
and Expressionism - its output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art
to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting, and collage. Dada's aesthetic,
marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, proved a
powerful influence on artists in many cities, including Berlin, Hanover, Paris,
New York, and Cologne, all of which generated their own groups. The movement
dissipated with the establishment of Surrealism.
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada.htm
Untitled (Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance) (1917) - Hans Arp
Fountain (1917) - Marcel Duchamp
Sophie Taeuber Arp
Born in Davos, Switzerland in 1889 as Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber, Taeuber-Arp is now recognised as one of the key figures in the Dada artistic movement, though in her lifetime she fought for her less figurative style of art to be recognised as fine art.Taeuber-Arp studied drawing and attended the School for Applied and Free Art in Munich before leaving for Zurich in 1915, where she met and later married French sculptor, painter and collagist Hans Arp in 1922.
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