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Da·da or da·da D0003900 (dä′dä)n. A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity. [French dada, hobbyhorse, Dada, of baby-talk origin.] Da′da·ism n.Da′da·ist adj. & n.Da′da·is′tic adj.Dada (ˈdɑːdɑː) or Dadaismn (Art Movements) a nihilistic artistic movement of the early 20th century in W Europe and the US, founded on principles of irrationality, incongruity, and irreverence towards accepted aesthetic criteria[C20: from French, from a children's word for hobbyhorse, the name being arbitrarily chosen] ˈDadaist n, adj ˌDadaˈistic adj ˌDadaˈistically advDa•da (ˈdɑ dɑ) n. a movement in early 20th-century art and literature whose exponents challenged established canons of art, thought, and morality through nihilist works and outrageous behavior. [1915–20; < French: hobby horse, childish reduplication of da giddyap] da′da•ism, n. da′da•ist, n., adj. da`da•is′tic, adj. da`da•is′ti•cal•ly, adv. Dada(c. 1915–23) An art movement originating in Zurich 1915, Dada (the name chosen at random) rejected accepted aesthetic values and advocated an irrational form of non-art or anti-art. Leading figures included the poet Tristan Tzara and the sculptor Jean Arp.ThesaurusNoun | 1. | dada - an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talkdad, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, popbegetter, father, male parent - a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta" | | 2. | dada - a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beautydadaismart movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles | TranslationsDadaenUK
Dada (dä`dä) or Dadaism (dä`däĭzəm), international nihilistic movement among European artists and writers that lasted from 1916 to 1922. Born of the widespread disillusionment engendered by World War I, it originated in Zürich with a 1916 party at the Cabaret Voltaire and the recitation of nonsense poetry by the Romanian Tristan TzaraTzara, Tristan , 1896–1963, French writer, b. Romania. He studied at the Univ. of Zürich, where he and his friends formulated the dadaist movement initially as a pacifist statement (see Dada). ..... Click the link for more information. , also the author of the Dada Manifesto. Dada attacked conventional standards of aesthetics and behavior and stressed absurdity and the role of the unpredictable in artistic creation. In Berlin, Dada had political overtones, exemplified by the caricatures of George GroszGrosz, George , 1893–1959, German-American caricaturist, draughtsman, and painter, b. Berlin. Before and during World War I he contributed drawings on proletarian themes to Illustration and other German periodicals. He was associated with the Dada group at that time. ..... Click the link for more information. and Otto DixDix, Otto, 1891–1969, German painter and draftsman. Dix fought in World War I and returned to Düsseldorf haunted by the horrors he had witnessed. In 1924 he published War, a series of 50 etchings, horrifying visions of war's victims executed with great clarity. ..... Click the link for more information. . The French movement was more literary in emphasis; it centered around Tzara, André BretonBreton, André , 1896–1966, French writer, founder and theorist of the surrealist movement. He studied neuropsychology and was one of the first in France to publicize the work of Freud. ..... Click the link for more information. , Louis AragonAragon, Louis , 1897–1982, French writer. One of the founders of surrealism in literature, Aragon abandoned that philosophy for Marxism after a trip to the USSR in 1931. ..... Click the link for more information. , Jean ArpArp, Jean or Hans, 1887–1966, French sculptor and painter. Arp was connected with the Blaue Reiter in Munich, various avant-garde groups in Paris, including the surrealists, and the Dadaists in Zürich. ..... Click the link for more information. , Marcel DuchampDuchamp, Marcel , 1887–1968, French painter, brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and half-brother of Jacques Villon. Duchamp is noted for his cubist-futurist painting Nude Descending a Staircase, ..... Click the link for more information. , Francis PicabiaPicabia, Francis , 1878–1953, French painter, b. Paris. After working in an impressionist style, Picabia was influenced by cubism and later was one of the original exponents of Dada in Europe and the United States. ..... Click the link for more information. , and Man RayRay, Man, 1890–1976, American photographer, painter, and sculptor, b. Philadelphia. Along with Marcel Duchamp, Ray was a founder of the Dada movement in New York and Paris. He is celebrated for his later surrealist paintings and photography. ..... Click the link for more information. . The latter three carried the spirit of Dada to New York City. Typical were the elegant collages devised by Arp, Kurt SchwittersSchwitters, Kurt , 1887–1948, German artist, b. Hannover. Influenced by Kandinsky, by Picasso's reliefs, and by Dada constructions, he invented Merz [trash] constructions—arrangements of diverse materials and objects. ..... Click the link for more information. , and Max ErnstErnst, Max 1891–1976, German painter. After World War I, Ernst joined the Dada movement in Paris and then became a founder of surrealism. Apart from the medium of collage, for which he is well known, Ernst developed other devices to express his fantastic vision. ..... Click the link for more information. from refuse and scraps of paper, and Duchamp's celebrated Mona Lisa adorned with a mustache and a goatee as well as his Fountain (1917), a urinal signed "R. Mutt." Dada principles were eventually modified to become the basis of surrealismsurrealism , literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention. ..... Click the link for more information. in 1924. The literary manifestations of Dada were mostly nonsense poems—meaningless random combinations of words—which were read in public. Bibliography See R. Short, Dada and Surrealism (1980); S. C. Foster, ed., Dada-Dimensions (1985); H. Richter, Dada: Art and Anti-Art (1985); R. Motherwell, ed., The Dada Painters and Poets (1951, 2d ed. 1989); A. Codrescu, The Posthuman Dada Guide (2009); J. Rasula, Destruction Was My Beatrice (2015). Dada, Dadaism a nihilistic artistic movement of the early 20th century in W Europe and the US, founded on principles of irrationality, incongruity, and irreverence towards accepted aesthetic criteria www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/GraphicsDADA
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dadaenUK Related to dada: surrealism, dadaismSynonyms for dadanoun an informal term for a fatherSynonymsRelated Words- begetter
- father
- male parent
noun a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th centurySynonymsRelated Words- art movement
- artistic movement
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