Dada started up in the early 20th century, being born out of the negative reaction to world war 1. many artists responded to the war by rejecting logic and reason, favouring the nonsense and irrationality of the world.
a lot of Dada artists use collage in their work, as it is a way of getting the whacky out and creating things out of nothing.
Else von freytag-loringhoven was known as Dada impersonated because of how extreme she took the movement. She is one of the artists that i will be looking at a lot as she was the one who kind of brought it forward, she wasnt scared to be doing anything, to her, her body was a canvas and everyone would see it. she was iconic to the dada world of new york, being known as the baroness of Dada.
her work was something to be recognised, and many other dada artists came to love her work, some to be repulsed by it. Others feared the amount of power she had in the movement, because she was so big and everyone knew who she was.
she was described by an avant-garde publisher as, "the only one living anywhere who dresses Dada, loves Dada, lives Dada."
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