Dada: The Anti-Art Movement

   
Dada; The anti-art movement which was established in Zurich, Switzerland around 1917, few after this movement have been spread through Berlin too. This started when Marcel Duchamp have set his art works up for exhibition, yet his arts weren’t the traditional ones (i.e. paintings and sculptures), yet they were so called ‘readymades’. These readymade artefacts were nothing but re-touched famous paintings just like the Mona Lisa where Duchamp added facial hair to it (moustache and goatee) and a common urinal which he placed it on its back and just wrote R.Mut1917 on it.                          

All this happened as part of protests that art was anti-war and political affections with the leftists. All this have been promoted from manifestoes, poetry and literature and of course then moved its way in visual arts and graphic design. The Dadaists wanted to break away from the traditional art and wanted freedom from the traditions which were build up in their past.

This style was later on spread to New York, USA. This was a safe place for the artists and many writers during WWI, just like I was explaining before this movement was an anti-war so as their art rebelled against the high authorities they were not safe in Eastern Euroe and migrated to NYC. and anti-traditional so naturally the Nazi’s who wanted to keep a traditional and up to standard Euro

The Dadaists were meeting up in all sorts of protests, public gatherings and demonstrations as they produced publications for their protests materials and handed out to people during these protests. Their posters/visual arts were made up of found objects and other materials whom they created collages through them. Dadaists, like cubists had interest in solid and boldness when it came to letterforms. They rebelled in a way that their writings weren’t all the same size, nor on the same line, and neither the same thickness. Some were printed vertically, diagonally and some were printed horizontally on the same paper. Their typography was even a mixture of Serif and sans-serif fonts.

Another famous and one of the most important Dadaist in the graphic design aspect was Hannah Hoch, which they believe she have originated photomontage in this movement. She used printed images and have cut words whom she collected from magazines and newspapers which eventually these already printed/published  materials she pasted/patched them in random ways to form a new artwork.

Dada didn’t last long, yet it’s term of Anti-Art have re-lived in Pop Art and mostly in Punk art. Although today we are not during a world war or just came from one, we find protest all around Europe cause the crisis were in and after researching through the net ive found some posters that include elements coming from the Dadaists i.e photo montage which today its done by photoshop where photos are edited.
Something on a positive note, in today’s world we even find elements of Dada in Graphic design especially when it comes to music as we find examples of photomontage in certain album covers.

                                            

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