As basic as possible, was the maingoal artists used in the period, and many of the household and bought-ableitems in stores were used to represent a certain story and make it as provokingas possible. This technique was called the usage of ready-made items that wereavailable to everyone, but artist of Dada had a way of creating a certainmessage that these basic materials would represent. The movement had manyfamous artists like Hugo Ball or Hans Arp, among many others that created andmade Dada possible in many aspects of art itself, and many art meanings ofcreation.
Among many other movements, this one created a “pollution” of makingart as banal as possible, and not making it appealing in a sense of creating itas beautiful as it can be, but using anything you have a reach on, to create acertain story that will have much effect on the viewer and make him think aboutthe art piece, and this had ground breaking effects on the future movementsthat came. A period like this one created a new way for other upcoming periodsthat came by, and a lot of them took many influential key factors that createda whole new meaning of art itself, and carved a path for future generations ofartists that came.Dada’s true weapons of choice in their war with theestablishments were confrontation and provocation, and they did it perfectly.They attacked traditional artistic values with irrational attitudes andprovoked a lot of conservative complacency with various different outrageousstatements and actions. They also have launched a full-scale true and hard assaulton the art world which they saw as a true part of the system. It was certainly consideredequally culpable and consequently had to be toppled.
Dada questioned the trueartistic value of all art and whether its existence was simply an indulgence ofthe bourgeoisie, and many other cultural values of the period they established themovement.The great and the strangely true paradox of Dadais that they claimed to be anti-art, yet here we are discussing their artworks,and there are many reasons for that also. Even their most negative attacks on theestablishment of the artistic values resulted in positive artworks that openeda door to future developments in 20th century art, and we cannot disregard thetrue influence of Dadaism towards the modern age art movements which was trulyprofound and huge for the future artists that followed the rules of Dadaism andimplemented them to their own art pieces and art works. The effect of Dada wasto create a totally new and greater climate in which art was alive to themoment and not be paralyzed by the traditions and restrictions of establishedvalues, that earlier art movements established but they also made them expandin a much bigger way. After the war,the face of the true artists the represented Dada began to change.
Many of theDadaists who were exiles in the time of the second world war in Zurich, theybegan to drift back to their home countries and found that life was quitedifferent there, because the true values of what they established in thatperiod and what they achieved, was totally different in other countries and cities.As they relocated to Berlin, Cologne, Hanover and some as far as New York, Dadadeveloped an international reputation, and they truly expanded the movement throughoutthe world, but each of these venues had its own distinctive style inspired bythe artists who settled there, and that was truly a perfect resemblance of whatDadaism meant to artists who have helped its establishment.They were also experimental,provocatively re-imagining what art and could truly be consisted of and artmaking could be. Using unorthodox materials andchance-based procedures, they infused their work with spontaneity andirreverence.
Wielding scissors and glue, Dada artists innovated with variousdifferent usages of art techniques one of the most famous among them was theusages of collage and photomontage. Still othersexplored games, experimental theater, and performance. The key central figureof the movement, Marcel Duchamp, declared common, manufactured and basic goodsto be “readymade” artworks, radicallychallenging the true artistic values that the notion of a work of art assomething beautiful made by a technically skilled artist, or a beginner of sort.
