An early 20th-century art movement that rejected logic and embraced nonsense, chaos, and absurdity as a response to World War I.
The origin is deliberately obscure—the name may come from French 'dada' (a child's word for hobbyhorse), or chosen randomly from a dictionary. The movement intentionally rejected clear meaning and historical continuity.
Dada artists invented 'anti-art' on purpose during WWI because they believed that if civilization could be so brutally illogical and destructive, then logical, serious art was pointless—so they threw paint, glued random objects, and performed nonsense to make their point.
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