Dada / Dadaism, described & explained in text-quotes + images - free resource, European art history

**Dada / Dadaism and its artists, shortly described / explained in short text-quotes + art-images ** - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in European art history

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Dada / Dadaism was the most revolting modern art movement in Europe; it was criticizing everybody and everything in society, even Dada itself.
These selected text-quotes on Dada / Dadaism are taken from the Dutch art-critic Jacob Bendien. He described very well the essentials, meaning, goals, and characteristics of European Dada /Dadaism, including its artists. Bendien himself was a contemporary of Dada.

The selected text-quotes describe the revolting attitude of several Dadaist artists in and around Dada; key figures in the movement were Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp, Tristan Tzara, Picabia, Huelsenbeck, John Heartfield, Man Ray, Beatrice Wood, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Richter, Max Ernst… Of many of these dadaists you can find their artist quotes on Wikiquote.
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Some selected text-quotes on European Dada, by Jacob Bendien - as a short introduction of his extended quotes, in the PDF:

• ’Dada consciously renounced all monumentality. It does not see itself as the only real truth amongst relativism, it sees itself as no less relative. By first renouncing monumentality we will have a better view of life.'

• ’Dada does not point its hate and contempt at anyone in particular. He does not despise our culture less than he despises its moralistic fighters, who comatise themselves in the rhetoric of their sermons. The Dadaist is serious enough to doubt his own seriousness…'

• ’The Dada artist does not see public, everyday life as being beneath his dignity. Quite the opposite. Public, everyday life is the main point for him. By sending false reports to the press he tries to fool the public who want more and more sensational news. They even play-acted riots with the police…'
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  selection of other free art- resources on European art movement Dada / Dadaism:

  • an extended description of Dada, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
  • selected artist-quotes on Dada, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dada
  • selection Dadaist art-images, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/paintings-by-style/dada
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]
    translation from Dutch, Anne Porcelijn: [http://www.anneporcelijn.nl]