Dadaism: Evoking Emotions and Redefining Art

Anger arises as a picture of segregation crosses the screen. You smile as you see a picture of a laughing child. Tears fall down your cheek as you watch a scene from a funeral. A picture is worth a thousand words, because even if you have never had a child of your own or seen segregation firsthand, you can have compassion for the people of those events because you have felt frustrated and happiness before. The emotion you arouse are sympathy for those currently going through these events. Dadaists was exploring these emotions in their work by evoking specific reactions in their audience. Dadaism changed the face of art, resulting in paradigm shifts about what was considered art, and even questioning ideas about human and national actions. Despite the audacity of Dada artists in their

They ridded the demands of the art community by not requiring great technical skill for something to be beautiful, and because of the lack of talent and thought that went into the art of their time period, there is only some pieces that I could consider true art. Traditions and encounters even stated that, ““Although the origin of the name Dada is unclear, it is believed to be a deliberately nonsensical word.” This quote shows that the artists didn’t want their work to fit into a previous category, and were often trying to prove that art can arise from anything. Dada pieces were unlike any art made, because they rejected using the precise technique and detail in their art, but what made this movement so unique was that it, “declared an all-out assault on the unquestioning conformity of culture and thought (T&E).” The idea of changing politics and long held views by art and not words was a drastic change for the art