Dada

= DaDaIsm ( Dada ) = The art form started as a protest against WWI and the inhumanity the war had caused. Many artists believed the movement was a demonstration. It is said that the name came about during a rendez vous between artists in a cafe known as Hugo Ball's Cabaret Voltaire, in Zurich, in 1916. The name was randomly chosen when a knife was slipped into the pages of a French-German dictionary and landed on the word "dada", French for hobbyhorse. The movement focused on making anti-aesthetic pieces from regular, everday items as a form of anti-art out of disgust for the bourgeois values in Europe during that time period. Marcel Duchamp is seen as the leader of this protest art group. Other significant artists include Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia.