Why did the irreverent “anti-art” of the Dadaist movement emerge?
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According to the Smithsonian Magazine, artists like Marcel Duchamp, who worked during the First World War, saw people mindlessly and passively accept European leaders’ justifications for its senseless horrors. In response, they made deliberately nonsensical and alienating art in the hopes that the shock people felt upon seeing them would inspire shock at what was happening around them.
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Why did the irreverent “anti-art” of the Dadaist movement emerge?
- Marcel Duchamp bet Hugo Ball he could put a urinal on display an art gallery
- Artists were annoyed by people who claimed to understand their work
- Everyone got bored and decided to pass off complete nonsense as art
- Artists were reacting to the public’s complacency with the horrors of World War I
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