Dada

Dada


Marcel Duchamp, LHOOQ, 1919. (Foundation, 2017).
Dada is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during the World War I and came to a rise from 1916 to 1920. Dada represented rebellion against World War I and that failure and all the established verities (Foundation, 2017). The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature such as poetry art manifestoes, art theory, theater, and graphic design, which concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works (Foundation, 2017). Duchamp transformed a cheap postcard of the Mona Lisa (1517) painting, which had only recently been returned to the Louvre after it was stolen in 1911. While it was already a well-known work of art, the publicity from the theft ensured that it became one of the most revered and famous works of art: art with a capital A. On the postcard, Duchamp drew a mustache and a goatee onto Mona Lisa's face and labeled it L.H.O.O.Q. If the letters are pronounced as they would be by a native French speaker, it would sound as if one were saying "Elle a chaud au cul," which loosely translates as "She has a hot ass." (Foundation, 2017).

Robert Rauschenberg's, Monogram, 1959. (Rauschenberg, 1959).
This movement was protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war and what they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society (contributors, 2013). This contemporary art work is a clear example of Neo-Dada. the colors give off a feel of rebellion. 

Sources consulted

contributors, N. W. E., 2013. Dada. [Online]
Available at: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/p/index.php?title=Dada&oldid=971411
[Accessed 04 September]

Foundation, T. A. S., 2017. Dada. [Online]
Available at: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada-artworks.htm#pnt_4
[Accessed 04 September]

Rauschenberg, R., 1959. Monogram. [Art] (Artspace).

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