So I tried to erase that thought bubble but Photoshop’s content aware filter turned it into a very strangely shaped cloud instead and I dont know why but i find this absolutely hilarious
a response to the apparent disorder and absurdity of the world in the specific social-historical context of interwar europe
an experimental movement in modern art that built off existing subcurrents in how people in various parts of the western world thought about what they could and couldn’t do with things like art, poetry, and graphic design
a movement that was formed during the emergence of new technologies in the early 1900s, including mass-use photography, printing, collage, and recording
an inherently international, political and radical concept in all contexts, but something that differed in political weight depending on where it was being practiced and by whom (in germany, for example, dada was much more pointedly used as a political tool)
an art movement that had several organizers who penned a manifesto and created rules and ideas within which they worked; a movement which was rhetorically based on the idea of “nonsense”
a term which, though it has admittedly merged into the cultural consciousness as something that means “nonsense” or “randomness”, should not be treated as a general adjective when analyzing visual culture, not in order to be stuffy or pretentious or academic, but because the truth of what dada is is incredibly specific and interesting, and we can use its specificity to expand on what it might mean in contemporary culture more effectively
