DaDa Movement

In my last post I left off with  René  Magritte and  his work translated title: What Is Surrealism. Now to try and answer that question. The movements roots were started in the Dada movement starting around 1916 durring WWI. The Dada-ists such as Hugo Ball, Max Earnst, and Louis Aargon, were mainly based in Switzerland, and thier style was more of an anarcist movement against teh horrors of the war. The rejcted the logical and stood for all things nonsense. Thier publications and art was aimed to stray away from classical art motiefs and into random bizarre ideas. The hated their world of war so they made up reason-less and whimsical culture. Like this artist below, Duchamp. I mean he literally put a urinal in an art show and called it "ready made art". If that's not sticking it to some classic art snobs, then I don't know what is.

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, white glazed ceramic plumbing fixture and painted signature, readymade porcelain urinal on its back, 63 x 48 x 35 cm. The urinal, purchased from "Mott Works" company in New York and signed "R. Mutt," was submitted to the jury-free 1917 Independents exhibition but was suppressed by the hanging committee. This is a photograph of either the second version of 1951 or the third of 1964. The Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris publishes a color photo of it. 

Or one of Duchamp's other famous works: L.H.O.O.Q where I like to point out that at the bottom of the portrait he wrote in french, "She has a hot ass"... yeah I know it's not really about the good surreal dreamy unconscious stuff yet but I wanted to share:)