Dada

Dadaism or Dada began at the start of World War I. Most of the people involved in the movement were in opposition of anyone whom they thought was the main cause of the war. They were highly against conformity in society and most importantly in art that had anything to do with the war. Through their harsh rejection of the war, their art work expressed non logic and exulted scenes of chaos. Dada was meant to reflect the opposite of anything art.It was "anti-art." With all of this opposition to traditional art many try to find the point in all of this. Dadaist wanted to completely wipe out The traditional aesthetics and culture of art. Dada can be very hard or very easy to perceive. I can understand where the artist of this time were coming from with their opposition to the war. But i have a difficult time in understanding why they would want to forget about all of the basic principles of art. It could have been to start new, to create something that was based off of self expression and not the traditional aesthetically pleasing art forms. I don't know if i completely agree with the Dadaist movement. The emotions were so intense at that time in our history that i think that they were the driving force in this movement.