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| Fountain- a Dada sculpture by Marcel Duchamp |
Dadaism was an art style that sprung up as a reaction to the brutality of WWI. The artwork was designed to be displeasing and ugly, and to alter the ideas of normal. Dada artists ridiculed their culture with absurd drawings, performances, and sculptures. German Dadaists created the first substantial body of Dada artwork in the form of photo collages, reacting the suffering their country was suffering after the war.
The idea behind Dadaism was to make society aware of themselves and what they were doing. Their artwork mirrored the world they were living, in the ugly world that was after World War One. Dada artwork condemned the nationalist and capitalist ideals that started the war in the first place, and attacked government and society for the way they behaved.
