Marcel Duchamp Dada Research Paper

Dada is an artistic and literary movement of the European avant-garde, an artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, cultural, and political values of the time. Dada was not as much of a style of art like Fauvism or Cubism; it was a rebellious movement attached to an anti-establishment manifesto. It was established around World War I. Its purpose was to ridicule the supposed meaninglessness of the modern world. It peaked in 1916 to 1922, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire. It favored being against normal societal actions. Artists of Dadaism included Marcel Duchamp, Antonin Artaud, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dali. “Dada is what you can make out of yourself” (Hausmann, 1968)
“Dada is a state of mind that can be revealed in any conversation whatever, so that you are compelled to say: this man is a DADAIST—that man is not; the Dada Club consequently has members all over the world, in Honolulu as well as New Orleans and Meseritz. Under certain circumstances to be a Dadaist may mean to be more a business- man, more a political partisan than …show more content…
He chose to turn a urinal upside down and signed it. It was guaranteed to challenge and offend even his fellow artists. Duchamp was questioning basic definitions of art as well as the role of the artist in creating it.
• LHOOQ (1919), Marcel Duchamp: Duchamp transformed a cheap postcard of the Mona Lisa (1517) painting, which had only recently been returned to the Louvre after it was stolen in 1911. Duchamp drew a mustache and a goatee onto Mona Lisa's face and labeled it L.H.O.O.Q. If the name is pronounced as it would be by a native French speaker, it would sound as if one is saying "Elle a chaud au cul," which could be translates as "She has a hot buttocks." Again, Duchamp managed to offend everyone while also posing questions that challenged artistic values, and artistic