The Dada Art Movement.

• Dada was an art movement formed during world war 1 in Zurich. To projected negative reactions to the war. It was a movement not just made up of art by poetry and performance, and all the art forms often include satirical and nonsensical themes.
• The main reason for the movement include that the artist felt the war called into question every aspect of society. Their main aim was to eliminate traditional values in art and to create a new forms of art.
• Hans Arp- ' Revolting by the butchery of the 1914 world war, we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the art , while the guns rumbled in the distance , we sang, painted and made collages and wrote poems with all our might.' 
• Founder - Hugo Ball.
• Dada involved- Marcel Duchamp , Francis Picabia, Kurt Schuritters. Questioning the fundamentals of western art and subsequent influence.