Dada Manifesto

     Beginning in the early twentieth century, Dadaism was an art movement that was spawned from the European avant-garde. Beginning in 1916, the Dada movement was a response to the horrors of World War I. Dada is generally known for its lack of conformity to the rules of classical art. Dada works utilized many different mediums, including visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestoes, art theory, theatre, and graphic design. Dada and those who fallowed Dada generally affiliated themselves with the radical left. The primary idea behind Dada was taking an object and decontextualize it from its intended use. As a result of the decontextualization that object could then be considered art. Furthermore Dada focused on using letters to create sounds or pieces of art work that would be pleasing to either look at or listen to but didn’t necessarily have any formal meaning.