Have you ever heard of the term "Dadaism". I honestly didn't know what Dadaism was until I was assigned to make research on it for further purposes. When you hear the word "dada" in "dadaism" what comes to your mind? The only thing that came to my mind was a baby's first attempt to say the word "dad". Turns out that is not the case in this matter. Dadaism was an art movement that started during the early 20th century. Many artists were against the war during the nineteen hundreds and so from that moment, all of these artists that were being affected by the outcomes of the war got inspired from the horrors of World War One to make this art movement happen! Can you imagine get inspiration from a brutal event such as WWI?
From my own curiosity, I wondered what the word "dadaism" actually meant or how it was decided it to call it something so unusual. From my investigation, there is nothing really about the origin of the name. But there is a rumor that makes this art movement more juicy than it actually is. The rumor goes that two artists who started this movement, Tristian Tzara and Marcel Janco, met a beautiful girl named Dada. They thought she was the most beautiful girl in the world when she really turn out to be a mermaid! A witch to be exact. The two artists went under her spells and she had them for diner...NOT! that is not what really happened. I had you going for a second.
What indeed happen was that Tristian and Marcel used the word "da-da" a lot during this art movement. The word "da-da" translated from Russian actually means "yes-yes." Weird huh? One thing that I find cool about this art movement was that it not only involved artists such as painters. But It also involved writers such as poets. An odd fact about Dadaism is the way poems were written. The poet Tristian Tzara wrote his poems by taking some scissors and cutting newspaper words. So far it sounds normal and creative right? After he cut the words, he would place them inside a bag and shake it. Then he would take a word at a time and would glue them in that order. This poems turn out to be meaningful and very iconic because at the end of the day the poems didn't made sense most of the time but resembled him perfectly as well as the message of dadaism. Which was literally to contradict logic.
From my own curiosity, I wondered what the word "dadaism" actually meant or how it was decided it to call it something so unusual. From my investigation, there is nothing really about the origin of the name. But there is a rumor that makes this art movement more juicy than it actually is. The rumor goes that two artists who started this movement, Tristian Tzara and Marcel Janco, met a beautiful girl named Dada. They thought she was the most beautiful girl in the world when she really turn out to be a mermaid! A witch to be exact. The two artists went under her spells and she had them for diner...NOT! that is not what really happened. I had you going for a second.
What indeed happen was that Tristian and Marcel used the word "da-da" a lot during this art movement. The word "da-da" translated from Russian actually means "yes-yes." Weird huh? One thing that I find cool about this art movement was that it not only involved artists such as painters. But It also involved writers such as poets. An odd fact about Dadaism is the way poems were written. The poet Tristian Tzara wrote his poems by taking some scissors and cutting newspaper words. So far it sounds normal and creative right? After he cut the words, he would place them inside a bag and shake it. Then he would take a word at a time and would glue them in that order. This poems turn out to be meaningful and very iconic because at the end of the day the poems didn't made sense most of the time but resembled him perfectly as well as the message of dadaism. Which was literally to contradict logic.
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