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Johannes Theodor Baargeld – Typische Vertikalklitterung als Darstellung des Dada Baargeld - 1920
Johannes Theodor Baargeld: Typical Vertical Mess as Depiction of the Dada Baargeld, 1920

Dadaism is an artistic movement in modern art that started around World War I. Its purpose was to ridicule (poke fun at) the supposed meaninglessness of the modern world. Its peak was 1916 to 1922, and it influenced surrealism, pop art, and punk rock. It favored going against normal social actions. Followers of Dadaism included Antonin Artaud, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dali. A later version, called Neo-Dada, arose in the 1960s.

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  • Francis Picabia, Dame! Illustration for the cover of the periodical Dadaphone n. 7, Paris, March 1920

    Francis Picabia, Dame! Illustration for the cover of the periodical Dadaphone, n. 7, Paris, March 1920

  • Dada1

    Cover of the first edition of the publication Dada by Tristan Tzara; Zürich, 1917

  • Francis Picabia, 1915, New York.

    Francis Picabia, (left) Le saint des saints c'est de moi qu'il s'agit dans ce portrait, 1 July 1915; (center) Portrait d'une jeune fille americaine dans l'état de nudité, 5 July 1915: (right) J'ai vu et c'est de toi qu'il s'agit, De Zayas! De Zayas! Je suis venu sur les rivages du Pont-Euxin, New York, 1915

  • Hoch-Cut With the Kitchen Knife

    Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90×144 cm, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

  • An Anna Blume

    Cover of Anna Blume, Dichtungen, 1919

  • Label for the Belle Haleine cropped

    Rrose Sélavy, the alter ego of famed Dadaist Marcel Duchamp

  • Man Ray, Rencontre dans la porte tournante

    Man Ray, c. 1921–22, Rencontre dans la porte tournante, published on the cover of Der Sturm, Volume 13, Number 3, 5 March 1922

  • Man Ray, Dessin

    Man Ray, c. 1921–22, Dessin (Drawing), published on page 43 of Der Sturm, Volume 13, Number 3, 5 March 1922

  • I.K. Bonset Voorbijtrekkende troep 2

    A Bonset sound-poem, "Passing troop", 1916

  • Dada in Ultraman

    Dada, an iconic character from the Ultra Series. His design draws inspiration from the art movement.

  • En hod dada museum

    The Janco Dada Museum, named after Marcel Janco, in Ein Hod, Israel

  • MechanicalHead-Hausmann

    Raoul Hausmann, Mechanischer Kopf (Der Geist unserer Zeit) (Mechanical Head [The Spirit of Our Age]), c. 1920

  • ABCD-Hausmann

    Raoul Hausmann, ABCD (self-portrait), a photomontage from 1923–24


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