Dada
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Any person depending on how they want to see or read it can interpret Dadaist art. It brings out feelings and emotions in each person. However, it does not have any uniform characteristics as many other movements in the arts have. Though, it brought about everything new such as new ideas, new directions, new people, and new materials.
Dada began in 1916 when a German poet and exile founded a local caf in Zurich, called the Cabaret Voltaire. This club was an institution of learning and a Mecca for artistic individuality. People all over Europe came to visit the club because of its popularity. At the club, Hugo Ball met Arp, Janco, Tzara, Huelsenbeck and Serner. Hugo Ball then realized that he needed a new name for this group and he named it Dadaism, a word that he accidentally saw in the French-German dictionary.
The young Dadaists felt that the creators of modern art has lost their sense of true direction and that artists had somehow lost the true identity of art...