Dadaism Explained …
“What matters is the thought rather than talent”
The “Dadaism” movement has entered the art society with its “manifesto” and approach to notion of art with destructive ideas and cheerful, infinite creativity. Dadaist artist strongly encouraged “the idea of creating thought” while refrain from any artistic talent. They have underestimated the “aesthetic pleasing” of the traditional artworks. Dadaist artists definition of art was; what is not pleasing aesthetically, enological, isolated and anyhting no different than rubbish.
Firstly, the idea was born in the city Zurich and New York in similar times, later on spread to around the Europe, especially Berlin, Hannover, Paris and Cologne were the most anticipated cities.
Dada’s vanishing point is the definition of “innovation in art” which can be interpreted as the Dadaism is the new freshblood art needed in that period. The values that holden with Dada manifesto was an awakening of a new era that shaped the story of art.
Dada: every object, all objects, sentiments, obscurities, apparitions and the precise clash of parallel lines are weapons for the fight: Dada; abolition of memory: Dada; abolition of archaeology: Dada; abolition of prophets: Dada; abolition of the future: Dada; absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity…
One of the evident characteristic of the movement is, the desire to demolish the vivid lines arouse between life and art and any related art notion/movement.
Unlike the Futurist artists, Dadaist artists’ aim is to destroy traditional way of making art and any understanding related to past. It’s an attempt to stop the established order in the art world. This “anti-art” expression primarily used by Marcel Duchamp by his“ready-made” artworks.
In conclusion, Dadaism is the questioning of the commonplace of what art is by annihilation of the values and standard. Altered the art from an act of talent to ability of thought.
Dadaism played a role as a pioneer to many other art movements especially “conceptual art” disposition.
Here are some artworks from Dadaism movement:
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917)
Raoul Hausmann’s The Mechanical Head (1920)
Jean Arp’s Shirt Front and Fork (1922)
Hugo Ball’s Hugo Ball Reading Karawane (1916)
Kurt Schwitters’ Construction for Noble Ladies (1919)
A work of art should not be beauty in itself, for beauty is dead; it should be neither gay nor sad, neither light nor dark to rejoice or torture the individual by serving him the cakes of sacred aureoles or the sweets of a vaulted race through the atmospheres. — Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto, 1918.
