Dada is a life style, not art

Life = art

In the eyes of the dadaists the role of art and the artist was something completely different from the genius who produced works which were not from this planet. According to dadaists art had to stand in between the real life. That is why the dada soirees in the Netherlands, but also in Swiss, France, Germany, the United States, Spain, Tirol and Belgium, were so important. For the dadaists the soirees were a means of reaching out to the public that did not understand them.

An other reason why dada is hard to label as an art movement is de diversity of the products dadaists made. The paintings, poems, manifests, novels, magazines, typography, cabaret, music and other thing dadaists produced under the label dada can by no means be brought under a clear and cut art historical definition. That becomes clear when you look at four randomly chosen dada works.

Max Ernst - Chanson	Marcel Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel
Raoul Hausmann - ABCD	Marcel Janco - Mask

Zaal Rosehaghe
Dada soirée
Dada Holland
Life = art
Dada stands for diversity
History of dada
Dada Zurich
Dada Berlin and Paris
The end of dada
Heritage of dada
The dadaist

Updated 3 april 2001; Comments to Martin Woestenburg.

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