Dada / Dadaism described, explained in artist quotes - free resource, European art history

Dada / Dadaism described and explained in quotes of the Dadaist artists + selected Dada-art images - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in European art history

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Dada and Dadaism in Europe is here described and explained by the Dadaists themselves. TheDada artis present in quotes their view on the art movement Dada in Switzerland, Germany and France, like Hugo Ball, Tzara, Hans Arp, Schwitters and other artists…
They all agreed in the fact that Dada liked to ridicule ruling autority in society without formulating any serious alternative roads to go! Even the artists themselves they didn’t take serious. And also Dada itself was subject of their jolly criticism…

Dada was the most revolting of all modern European art-movements. It started in Switzerland and Germany, reacting strongly on World War 1. It was a critical art-style with fun and jokes - but in fact Dada was more or less an artistic way of life, spreading over whole Europe.
Dadaism didn’t want to become a real art movement, with new goals and options to create modern art, like Futurism or Cubism wanted. No, they wanted only criticize.
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Some selected artist-quotes on Dada, Dadaism - as a short introduction of the extended artist-quotes in the PDF:

• ’Dada remains within the framework of European weaknesses, it’s still shit, but from now on we want to shit in different colors so as to adorn the zoo of art with all the flags of all the consulates…’ - quote of Tristan Tzara, in his ‘Manifeste de M. Antipyrine’, 1916

• ’What interests us is the Dada spirit and we were all Dada before the existence of Dada. The first Holy Virgins I painted date from 1886, when I was a few months old and amused myself by pissing graphic impressions. The morality of idiots and their belief in geniuses makes me shit.’ - quote of Jean Arp, in ‘Declaration’, October 1921

• ’We, the founders of Dada-movement try to give ‘time’ its own reflection in the mirror.’ - quote of Kurt Schwitters, 1923: first edition of his journal ‘Merz’
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  selected of free art-resources on Eurpean Dada / Dadaism:

  • Dada / Dadaism, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
  • artist-quotes describing Dada - on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dada
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]