Dada (updated)

Dada also know as Dadaism is a cultural movement which began in Zurich, Switzerland the Dada Movement was a reaction against the bloodshed of world war one. The Movement involved visual arts, literature and graphic design, which concentrated its anti-war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Dada was not actually art it was “Anti Art”. Dada pursued to fight art with art for everything that art stood for, it was to represent the opposite. When art was concerned with aesthetics Dada completely ignored it, and Movement strove to have no meaning. Dada became an influential movement to modern art, through this rejection of traditional cultural and aesthetics the artists associated with the movement hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics. Philip B. meggs. and Alston W. Purvis.eds., 2012. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Fifth Edition. Hoboken Canada: John Wiley & Sons,Inc pg 265

As it is already mentioned above the Dada movement was a reaction against world war 1. The movement had been influenced my many movements such as Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism. 

The aim of the Dada Movement was to shock or outrage the viewer and their rule was to never follow any existing rules and if society went in one direction they went went to the opposite direction in other words they wanted to break tradition 

The Dada Movement had no specific medium, Dadaists used everything from glass to plaster, wood. found objects and even geometrical shapes to create their work. 

Based on research Dada had influenced many Movements to come especially the Constructivism Movement.

 Some important figures of the Dada Movement were:

• Marcel Duchamp
• Kurt Schwitters
• Hannah Hoch 
• John Heartfield 
• Roul Hausmann

References

Philip B. meggs. and Alston W. Purvis.eds., 2012. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Fifth Edition. Hoboken Canada: John Wiley & Sons,Inc.