Marcel Duchamp was a leader in this movement. The name was chosen randomly from a french dictionary.
2006-09-20 07:17:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Dada, definitely. The story that the name was chosen randomly is only one story of several. Another is that it was an imitation of a baby's jabber, to signify that its practitioners were starting over and didn't owe anything to the artists before them. The link below may be helpful.
2006-09-20 07:24:59 · answer #1 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Duchamp was a modernist artist and a leader of the Dada movement. The movement grew out of disgust with bourgeois values and despair over World War I.
He had great influence on surrealism (popular between World Wars I & II) developed in reaction against the “rationalism” that had led to World War I.
2006-09-20 07:27:44 · answer #2 · answered by jennyc 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Duchamp & dadaism began in the early teens & very early 1920's. It is arguable as to where the name came from. Dada was not led, developed or created by one individual or group of people. It actually was created by several groups of which were not in touch with eachother in the beginning of dadaism. The origin of the name dada is not known for sure, since there were various conflicting stories. Dada was not just a response to WWI, but an anti-art movement. Surrealism, abstract expressionsim, pop art all have ties to dadaism. dadaism also contained a large amount of written material in addition to the visual art created.
2006-09-20 20:02:37 · answer #3 · answered by christy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dada
2006-09-20 07:24:58 · answer #4 · answered by corvuequis 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
impressionism....refer to the great gatsby as a literary representation of impressionism in the written word...it was a different way to view the world where the lines between what was and what could be were blurred...
2006-09-20 10:29:00 · answer #5 · answered by apost 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American Eugenic Movement
2006-09-20 07:21:26 · answer #6 · answered by Road King 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Was it Dada?
2006-09-20 07:24:22 · answer #7 · answered by +bookish+ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋