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    Dadaism was an early 20th century avant-garde art movement founded in Zurich in 1916. It rejected cultural and aesthetic conventions through nonsense, irrationality, and using everyday objects in art. Characteristics of Dadaism included being anti-art, ironic, and intentionally shocking, with works lacking standards and using techniques like photomontage and ready-mades. Prominent Dadaists included Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Johannes Theodor Baargeld.

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    Dadaism was an early 20th century avant-garde art movement founded in Zurich in 1916. It rejected cultural and aesthetic conventions through nonsense, irrationality, and using everyday objects in art. Characteristics of Dadaism included being anti-art, ironic, and intentionally shocking, with works lacking standards and using techniques like photomontage and ready-mades. Prominent Dadaists included Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Johannes Theodor Baargeld.

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    Dadaism was an early 20th century avant-garde art movement founded in Zurich in 1916. It rejected cultural and aesthetic conventions through nonsense, irrationality, and using everyday objects in art. Characteristics of Dadaism included being anti-art, ironic, and intentionally shocking, with works lacking standards and using techniques like photomontage and ready-mades. Prominent Dadaists included Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Johannes Theodor Baargeld.

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    DADAISM

    Dadaism or Dada is a post-World


    War European artistic and literary
    movement (1916-1923) that flouted
    conventional aesthetic and cultural
    values by producing works marked by
    nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.
    The term DADA is coined in Zurich in the year 1916
    By HUGO BALL and RICHARD HUELSENBECK

    Dada means Yes, Yes in Russia; There-there in
    Germany, and Hobby horse in French.

    CHARACTERI STI CS OF DADAI SM:
    Anti-art : Rejection of cultural standards
    Ironic
    Shock Value : Intentionally shocking
    and provoking the audience
    Nonsense and Irrational
    Uses ready-made objects
    Does not follow certain standards
    Marcel Duchamps Version of Monalisa
    The Fountain
    by Marcel Duchamp
    The Spirit of our Time By

    ABCD
    RAOUL HAUSMANN
    MAX ERNST
    'The Chinese
    Nightingale' 1920
    (photomontage)

    GIFT
    'Object to be
    Destroyed', 1923
    MAN RAY

    The Pillars of Society
    George Grozs
    JOHANNES THEODOR BAARGELD
    Typical Vertical Misrepresentation as
    a Depiction of the Dada Baargeld'

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