DADA is an ‘anti-war movement’ that was spearheaded by a group of artists in Zurich.
The origin of the name Dada is unclear. Some believe that it is a ‘nonsensical word’. Others believe that a group of artists assembled in Zürich in 1916, “…wanting a name for their new movement, chose it at random by stabbing a French-German dictionary with a paper knife, and picking the name that the point landed upon.” Dada in French is a child's word for hobby-horse. Through the rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics they hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics.Reason and logic had led people into the horrors of war; the only route to salvation was to reject logic and embrace anarchy and the irrational.
