Dadaism

/ˈdɑːdɑːɪzəm/ noun

Definition

An early 20th-century art and literary movement that rejected logic and reason, celebrating absurdity, chance, and nonsense as reactions to World War I.

Etymology

From 'Dada', a word of disputed origin (possibly from French 'dada' meaning hobbyhorse, or baby-talk), the movement named itself deliberately to sound meaningless and absurd.

Kelly Says

Dada artists would roll dice to determine artwork composition and create poems by randomly drawing words from hats—they believed that reason and logic had failed humanity through the horrors of WWI, so they'd embrace pure chaos and randomness instead.

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