Dadaists
Nonsense movement artists
Dadaists were artists and writers associated with Dada, an early twentieth-century movement that rejected logic, reason, and conventional aesthetics in favor of absurdity and anti-art provocation.
Emerging during World War I, Dadaists used collage, nonsense poetry, and random chance to mock bourgeois values and the rationalism they blamed for the war's horrors.
The Dadaists staged provocative performances designed to outrage audiences.
Innovative cultural pioneers
- anti-artRejection of conventional aesthetics
- ZurichSwiss financial center
- Cabaret VoltaireAvant-garde Zurich venue
- manifestoPublished statement of principles
nihilism · absurdism · provocation · collage · photomontage · readymades · performance · nonsense
Irrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- conceptual artWork valuing notion over form
- postmodernismSkepticism toward universal truths
- punkRaw, fast rock genre
- pop artMass culture as canvas
Rauschenberg · performance art · appropriation · deconstruction · multimedia · intermedia · happenings · counterculture
Structure spouting water skyward
- sound poetryVerse emphasizing phonetics over semantics
- readymadePrepared in advance
- photomontageCombined image artwork
- assemblageCollected group of things
avant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
- anti-artRejection of conventional aesthetics
- ZurichSwiss financial center
- Cabaret VoltaireAvant-garde Zurich venue
manifesto · nihilism · absurdism · provocation · collage · photomontage · readymades · performance · nonsense · anarchism
surrealism
Irrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- conceptual artWork valuing notion over form
- postmodernismSkepticism toward universal truths
- punkRaw, fast rock genre
pop art · Rauschenberg · performance art · appropriation · deconstruction · multimedia · intermedia · happenings · counterculture
Fountain
Structure spouting water skyward
- sound poetryVerse emphasizing phonetics over semantics
- readymadePrepared in advance
- photomontageCombined image artwork
Duchamp
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Impressionism, impressionism, Surrealism
- Art Scenesart scene, New York art scene, art colony, artist colony, art world
- countercultureflower power, flower children, free love, hippie communes, Summer of Love
- Literary Groupswriting group, writers group, poetry circle, writing circle, writers workshop
- Schools of ThoughtStoicism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, Neoplatonism, Scholasticism
Dadaiststraditionalists
Upholders of established customs
academicians · classicists · old masters · neoclassicists · Pre-Raphaelites
Dadaistsrationalists
Advocates of reasoned thinking
realists · naturalists · literalists · propagandists · moralists