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Friday 11 January 2013

Creativity in art design and multimedia

What is dadaism?  Dadaism or dada was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. The history of dadaism started in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916.

Dada refer to the dictionary is:
- A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.
[French dada, hobbyhorse, Dada, of baby-talk origin.]


 How the dadaism got it's name? The dadaism got it name from a paper knife inserted into a French-German dictionary pointed to the French word dada (“hobby-horse”), it was seized upon by the group as appropriate for their anti-aesthetic creations and protest activities, which were engendered by disgust for bourgeois values and despair over World War I. Dada did not constitute an actual artistic style, but its proponents favoured group collaboration, spontaneity, and chance. In the desire to reject traditional modes of artistic creation, many Dadaists worked in collage, photomontage, and found-object construction, rather than in painting and sculpture.





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