Art, era & culture
Dada
ダダ
An international wartime avant-garde rejecting established art and rationality through chance, fragments, everyday objects and nonsense.
How to recognise it
- Discontinuous cut-and-pasted fragments
- Deliberate absurdity and anti-rational placement
Different from nearby terms
Unlike Surrealism, it is not limited to dream psychology and more directly foregrounds anti-art, chance and institutional revolt.
Words for AI
EnglishDada character collage, discontinuous fragments, chance arrangement, anti-rational composition
日本語ダダの人物コラージュ、不連続な断片、偶然配置、反合理的な構成
