Dada

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Dada was an early 20th-century avant-garde art and literary movement that rejected traditional aesthetics and logic through absurdity, chance, and anti-bourgeois protest.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
Dada canonical 94
Dada movement 12
Dadaism 7

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Statements (107)

Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement
avant-garde movement
cultural movement
literary movement
countryOfOrigin Switzerland
endTime 1924
foundedAt Cabaret Voltaire
foundedBy Emmy Hennings
Hans Arp
Hugo Ball
Marcel Janco
Tristan Tzara
foundedInCity Zurich
foundedInCountry Switzerland
hasAlternativeName Dada movement
linked to: Dada

Dadaism
linked to: Dada
hasCharacteristic absurdity
anti-art
anti-bourgeois
anti-war
iconoclasm
irrationality
nonsense
political protest
rejection of logic
rejection of traditional aesthetics
satire
spontaneity
use of chance
hasKeyEvent Berlin Dada Fair
Zurich Dada activities
founding of Cabaret Voltaire
publication of Dada manifestos
hasKeyFigure Emmy Hennings
Francis Picabia
Hannah Höch
Hans Arp
Hugo Ball
Jean Arp
linked to: Hans Arp

Jean Crotti
Kurt Schwitters
Man Ray
Marcel Duchamp
Max Ernst
Raoul Hausmann
Richard Huelsenbeck
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Tristan Tzara
hasKeyWork Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
Fountain
Karawane
LHOOQ
linked to: L.H.O.O.Q.

Mechanical Head (The Spirit of Our Age)
Merzbau
hasMainLocation Berlin
Cologne
New York City
Paris
Zurich
hasSubMovement Berlin Dada
linked to: Berlin Dada Fair

Cologne Dada
New York Dada
linked to: Dada

Paris Dada
linked to: Dada

Zurich Dada
linked to: Dada
influenced Conceptual art
Fluxus
Mail art
Neo-Dada
Performance art
Pop art
Punk subculture
Situationist International
Surrealism
influencedBy Cubism
Expressionism
Futurism
World War I
anarchism
nihilism
language English
French
German
movementDomain collage
graphic design
literature
manifestos
painting
performance art
photomontage
poetry
sculpture
sound art
theatre
visual arts
opposed bourgeois culture
militarism
nationalism
traditional art institutions
startTime 1916
usedTechnique assemblage
chance operations
collage
improvised performance
nonsense poetry
photomontage
ready-made
sound poetry

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Pop art influencedBy Dada
Surrealism influencedBy Dada
Marcel Duchamp movement Dada
Joan Miró movement Dada
Dada hasAlternativeName Dadaism
linked to: Dada
Dada hasAlternativeName Dada movement
linked to: Dada
Dada hasSubMovement Zurich Dada
linked to: Dada
Dada hasSubMovement Paris Dada
linked to: Dada
Dada hasSubMovement New York Dada
linked to: Dada
George Grosz movement Dada
George Grosz influencedBy Dada movement
linked to: Dada
Fountain genre Dada
subject linked to: Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
Fountain movement Dada
subject linked to: Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
Large Glass genre Dada
subject linked to: Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp
Large Glass movement Dada
subject linked to: Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp
Theatre of the Absurd influencedBy Dadaism
linked to: Dada
André Breton movement Dada
Modern art hasMovement Dada
Francis Picabia associatedWith New York Dada
linked to: Dada
Francis Picabia associatedWith Zurich Dada
linked to: Dada
Man Ray movement Dada
Tristan Tzara movement Dada
Jean Cocteau movement Dada (influenced by)
linked to: Dada
Paul Éluard movement Dada
Paul Éluard participantIn Dada movement
linked to: Dada
Max Ernst movement Dada
Hans Arp movement Dada
Hans Arp coFounderOf Dada movement
linked to: Dada
Hans Arp participantIn Zurich Dada
linked to: Dada
Fountain movement Dadaism
linked to: Dada
Fountain associatedWith New York Dada
linked to: Dada