Le Dadaïsme

Dada is an artistic, intellectual and literary born February 5, 1916. Its creation comes from a gathering in Switzerland, artists come from everywhere to say no to war. The name comes from Dada chance. It is said that joining would open a dictionary and came across this word would be. In the great artists who have marked this movement, we can identify Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Raoul Hausmann, Francis Picabia, Sophie Taeuber-Arp or Man Ray. The spirit of Dada is provocative. He invented the idea of the work of ephemeral art. The size must be spectacular. This is not an object but a set of things that are being installed in a space. The Work is often accompanied by a text, words. With them, the work shall not deliver any message, it makes no sense. The Work "self-generating. The artists of this movement are willing to shock us. One of the best known works is undoubtedly Fountain by Marcel Duchamp created in 1917. It is a work that poses a question "what is a work of art?" In this movement, women artists are accepted as full and as colleagues rather than as "objects of sublimation in art."The artistic movement would later unleash the passions but also criticism. In France, since 1920, runs out of steam Dada, André Breton found that "Dada in circles. Thus, the movement found its end to 1920-1921. But we can say that this movement has left a lasting impression and will remain one of the major movements of the twentieth century.

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