The Dadaists protested with anti-art gatherings, performances, writings and art works.
Many Dadaists believed that the‘reason' and‘logic' of bourgeois capitalist
society had led people into war.
Many Dadaists believed that the‘reason' and‘logic' of bourgeoisie capitalist
society had led people into war.
The Dadaists proposed chaos over order
and called to break the boundaries between art and life.
The absence of fixed rules and conventions promulgated by the Dadaists is still valid for many artists.
Expressionism, to Dadaists, expressed all of the angst and anxieties of society,
but was helpless to do anything about it.
The Dadaists claimed that Dada was not an art movement,
but an anti-art movement, sometimes using found objects in a manner similar to found poetry.
The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants,
the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war,
and against the cultural and intellectual conformity-in art and more broadly in society-that corresponded to the war.