Grace Derieux Ruiz

1. G R A C e Grace Derieux Ruiz r U x i e e D

3. A a s s D I d i m . . . Cultural Movement Primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design Started at Zurich Began as an anti war response (World War I) Protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests Dada was not art, it was "anti-art".

4. We had lost confidence in our culture. Everything had to be demolished. We would begin again after the tabula rasa. At the Cabaret Voltaire we began by shocking common sense, public opinion, education, institutions, museums, good taste, in short, the whole prevailing order. -Marcel Janco

5. Artists (NOT) HUGo Ball hAnsRitcher Tristan Tzara Marcel Duchamp

6. Tristan Tzara Rumanian poet wrote the Dada Manifesto in 1918 credited with naming the Dada movement "I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918"

7. Jean Arp sculptor, painter, poet. introduced Germany to the movement of Dadaism. “Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. “ -Jean Arp

8. Hugo Ball german poet and author

9. Marcel Duchamp americandadaist “I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.” Marcel Duchamp

10. 'Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing' —Francis Picabia