What is Dadaism?
[[File:Johannes_Theodor_Baargeld_–_Typische_Vertikalklitterung_als_Darstellung_des_Dada_Baargeld_-_1920.jpg|thumb|200px|Johannes Theodor Baargeld's ''Typical Vertical Mess as Depiction of the Dada Baargeld'', 1920]] [[File:Duchamp Fountaine.jpg|thumb|200px|''Fountain'' by [[Marcel Duchamp]], 1917]] '''Dadaism''' is an [[avant-garde]] [[intellectual]] movement. It started around [[World War I|the time of the First World War]]. Although not at first an [[art movement]],<ref name=Hughes/><sup>p60/61</sup> it did influence art greatly for a time. == History == The movement, formed in [[Zurich]], [[Switzerland]], was heavily influenced by the war in Europe.<ref name=Hughes>Hughs, Robert 1991. ''The shock of the new: art and the century of change''. London: Thames & Hudson, p60{{ndash}}80.</ref><ref>Wilson S. & Lack J. 2008. ''The Tate guide to modern art terms'', p60. Tate Publishing.</ref> Its artists rejected modern [[capitalism|capitalist society]]. They used [[nonsense]] and [[protest]] in their works. Dadaist artists expressed their discontent with violence, [[war]], and [[nationalism]], and were close to the radical [[far-left]]. The whole point behind Dadaism was to prove that anything could be art if the artist declared it to be. This was to prove that if everything could be art, then nothing could be art. This outraged many artists as Dadaism deemed their labour intensive artworks meaningless. The art of the movement spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing, and sculpture.<ref>Trachtman, Paul. A brief history of Dada. ''Smithsonian Magazine.'' [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/dada-115169154/]</ref> == Influence == Its peak was 1916 to 1922, and it influenced [[surrealism]], [[pop art]], and [[punk rock]]. It went against the standards of society. Followers of Dadaism included [[Antonin Artaud]], [[Max Ernst]], and [[Salvador Dali]]. A later version, called ''Neo-Dada'', arose in the 1960s. Dadaism began in central Europe, in [[Berlin]] and