Dadaism, an art movement

"For us, art is not an end in itself ... but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in.", Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 – September 14, 1927)

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen
Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural
Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90x144 cm,
Staatliche Museum, Berlin.

"Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art  cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature." taken from www.wikipedia.org

so basically Dadaism, is an art movement that really into making fun of the modern world, by branding it with "meaningless" tag. Dadaism also an anti-war, anti-bourgeois (social group of people who is considered to be a high class/wealthy and act like it), and anarchistic in nature. this is art movement come during the World War 1, which given us the very basic idea why this art movement were invented back then. The movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity that corresponded to the war.

According to its people who's in Dadaism, Dada was not art, it was "anti-art". Everything for which art stood, Dada is the opposite. Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend. Through their rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics, the Dadaists hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics.

Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Richard Huelsenbeck, Jean Arp, Marcel Janco, Sophie Täuber, Hans Richter, Emmy Hennings, along with others, discussed art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire In 1916,  Zurich, expressing their disgust with war and the things that inspired it. Some people says that this is the beginning of Dadaism