DaDa Manifesto

Dadaism was an art movement that started during the 20th century. It was inspired by the European avant-garde. A big name artist that most people know of who partook in this era of art was Marcel Duchamp. No this isn't who made the popular youtube video called Marcel the Shell, this man was way more important than that. Although he wasn't directly in cahoots with Dadaism he was considered to be one of the 3 poplar artists who revolutionized the art movement of the twentieth century. Enough with Marcel Duchamp. The Dada Manifesto was made in 1918; the beginning of the 20th century and revolutionized the way art was made from then until now. Dada played with collage and montage. Many people thought that politicians were corrupt back then and that they were spreading poison into the ears of americans. These were sound poems that really showed how the "american dream" wasn't working. They were verses without words, they were more like sound patterns. Its amazing to think about the lengths that artists would go to just to make sure that their problems were seen or their versus were heard. This was such an interesting and crazy movement. I wish things like this were happening now. Things with meaning and things that people feel so passionate about. Instead people riot so that they have excuses to destroy things and break into shops and steal things. Nothing is meaningful anymore, just destructive.