Dada is often called an Anti-Art movement. Is Dada a positive or negative movement
“Dada is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.” - Hans Arp
“Dada speaks with you, it is everything, it envelopes everything, it belongs to every religion, can be neither victory or defeat, it lives in space and not in time.” – Francis Picabia
“Dada is the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the Police.” – Richard Huelsenbeck
If you were to ask a Dadaist what Dada was these are the responses you would have got. It does not seem particularly helpful, as these responses are completely ambiguous, simply expressing the means of Dada as a very illusive movement. ... One school of thought is that it came from conversations held between the Rumanian artists Janco and Tzara who often used the expression “da, da” (yes, yes). Secondly it is thought to have originated when the artists Huelsenbeck and Ball looked for a name for their movement and arbitrarily pointed to at the word Dada in a dictionary, being the French for hobby-horse, and the final possible origin is from the shampoo – Dada, available at the time. ... Many of the artists involved in the Dada movement had particularly strong views on this issue having had to flee from there native countries to neutral Switzerland as conscientious objectors – “ We were agreed that the war had been contrived by the various governments for the most autocratic, sordid, materialistic reasons” – Huelsenbeck. However Dada was not simply confined to the boundaries of Switzerland. Simultaneously a similar movement had started in New York, led by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia, their aim to demonstrate their profound contempt for the bourgeois conception of art. A similar literary attack on traditional concepts was started in Paris led by Tristan Tzara, and Dada was also to emerge a bit later in Berlin taking up a much more political front.
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