What is Dada? - A Short Introduction

Dada is one of the hardest art movement to define and to introduce. Here's my attempt at doing exactly that.
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  • @Lmi109
    @Lmi1092 жыл бұрын

    Obvieously Defense against dark Arts

  • @bonchitogovindodas3333

    @bonchitogovindodas3333

    Жыл бұрын

    Defense against Dada Art

  • @jalepezo
    @jalepezo2 жыл бұрын

    I agree with you, the banana in the wall WAS NOT DADA, it is dada being coopted by art-capitalism. Everybody is an artist if an artist is the person who can tape a banana to the wall. However, ONLY the artists (and financial yuppies) got the midas touch to turn a 0.15 banana into 100 k of art-investment (certificate, pretty much a bond)

  • @kvnvk8947

    @kvnvk8947

    Жыл бұрын

    I think Dada was really a product of its time, so much of its influence has permeated subsequent artistic movements and the pop culture of the last century that it's essentially impossible to create a legitimate Dadaist work, especially in our contemporary, technological, media-saturated landscape. On the surface, the performance artist who ate the $100K+ banana piece while it was being exhibited would seem to fit the bill, but even that was little more than a self-serving publicity stunt.

  • @franimal86

    @franimal86

    Жыл бұрын

    Kevin Nguyen and TJ Khayatan, on the other hand…true Dadaists!!

  • @007bistromath

    @007bistromath

    Жыл бұрын

    "I agree with you, the banana in the wall WAS NOT DADA," is excellent dadaist poetry

  • @Olivenpaste

    @Olivenpaste

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kvnvk8947 i think dada is alive not in photo collages and readymades but in Punkrock and shitposts

  • @1961burn

    @1961burn

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Olivenpaste so funny to see this just as I'm thinking that punk rock can definitely be dada :)

  • @jamescecil3417
    @jamescecil3417 Жыл бұрын

    Saw a DaDa exhibit back in the 90's at the SF Legion of Honor. Duchamp's "Fountain" was there. What made this exceptionally hilarious was a small card directly in front of the urinal, "Do not touch".

  • @kafkollectif525

    @kafkollectif525

    Жыл бұрын

    Funny because you wouldn’t have to touch it, to use it 😂

  • @HolographicSweater
    @HolographicSweater2 жыл бұрын

    dada is when you stunt on your teacher by intentionally misinterpreting the assignment 😂

  • @grdrddd

    @grdrddd

    Жыл бұрын

    its the modern-day troll. it might just provide a solution too.

  • @arnoldvld

    @arnoldvld

    Жыл бұрын

    My German language teacher back in highschool in the Netherlands always talked with consumption (spit)... He hated my ass so bad for being a huge fan of dadaism. I had to be in front of the class so i catched a little bit of spit every time he was in front of me.... the Bastard.... One day i revenged him so bad: He passed my desk and his pen dropped out of his pocket. He didn't notice, so i picked up the pen. "Entschuldigung, Sie haben etwas verloren". He turned and got right up to my face: "WASSSSSS?!?!?!?!".... My answer: "Der Krieg, zwei mahl!" and put the pen in his chestpocket.... That was the end of my german classes that year....

  • @redacted7989

    @redacted7989

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@arnoldvldWenn nur der totale Sieg gekommen wäre, wäre unsere Welt jetzt nicht so dunkel.

  • @bonthebunnycat667

    @bonthebunnycat667

    7 ай бұрын

    LMFAOOOO NOOOOO@@arnoldvld

  • @JahLuvzU

    @JahLuvzU

    6 ай бұрын

    Mis-dada. dada teacher being hit by what?

  • @VallisYT
    @VallisYT2 жыл бұрын

    I really liked the part about chance and the subsequent thoughts on lying. It's fascinating how such (in principle) simple ideas can challenge the notion of art, forcing fellow artists to reconsider their entire craft.

  • @fredneecher1746

    @fredneecher1746

    Жыл бұрын

    Sums up late Bob Dylan to a tee. "The box wrote it", he would say about a song, meaning he had a box full of phrases he's collected from newspapers and other sources and just stuck them together to make his lyrics. Which is also a lie, although hard to prove. 'ModBob', as fans call this period, danced on the edge of art and fraud, daring you to tell the difference.

  • @user-gh4hi8bm8u
    @user-gh4hi8bm8u5 ай бұрын

    The last point of Dada being about laughing at the absurd made me think of the emergence of the Theatre of the Absurd, a genre of plays that came about at the end of WW2 and combines humor with illogical thinking and existentialism. The most famous play is Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett, which oscillates between laughter and tears but focuses on silence. Just thought it was interesting how both world wars have had impacts on art forms and the expression of hopelessness that leans toward comedy.

  • @UniQueLyEviL
    @UniQueLyEviL Жыл бұрын

    Laughing in response to hopelessness. Damn guess I was into Dada without even realizing it. Lmao. DaDa the art subtype of mental breakdowns

  • @Against_all_Systems_of_Control

    @Against_all_Systems_of_Control

    Жыл бұрын

    much love

  • @chrisbarter7627
    @chrisbarter7627 Жыл бұрын

    The end of this video was wonderful and the Beckett quote comes to mind: "I cannot go on. I will go on."

  • @reaperscemetery362
    @reaperscemetery362 Жыл бұрын

    My parents nicknamed me "dada" when i was little and still call me it sometimes, and they would tell me about the artistic side to this name. I didn't give it much thought before but now I'm just so into Dada.

  • @theskullkid421
    @theskullkid421 Жыл бұрын

    As a teenager growing up in zurich our main hangout was the cabaret voltaire, which still is a bar/cafe that hosts art and music and still is a left wing artist's hub...great place :)

  • @TheCodgod1996

    @TheCodgod1996

    7 ай бұрын

    A hangout for low IQ commies... got it.

  • @Cystlib
    @Cystlib2 жыл бұрын

    You are quickly becoming one of my favourite art channels on youtube. Everything is very informative and well edited. Thank you for doing what you are doing!

  • @OnDaBeatBoy

    @OnDaBeatBoy

    Жыл бұрын

    ^^^^

  • @Ponyboy_Curtis
    @Ponyboy_Curtis Жыл бұрын

    So dada was like the one of the first memes. Got it.

  • @ericpeterson6113
    @ericpeterson61132 жыл бұрын

    Incredible video as always, can’t wait to see cover more Dada artists in the future!

  • @nicolenicole6325
    @nicolenicole6325 Жыл бұрын

    I love Dada, it’s just pure life to me. Unapologetically lively

  • @TheCodgod1996

    @TheCodgod1996

    7 ай бұрын

    So why is it so pathetically worthless. Although I guess if you are trying to push back against social norms it makes sense that you are going to create laughable and pathetic forms of art.

  • @kluslim
    @kluslim Жыл бұрын

    This is a beautiful dive into dada. Thank you for sharing this with the world.

  • @d-erekweth6903
    @d-erekweth6903 Жыл бұрын

    I love this video bc as much as I learned about Dada I still am unsure about Dada as a whole

  • @stefano2324
    @stefano2324 Жыл бұрын

    You are making me love art history, thanks bro

  • @barbaravoss7014
    @barbaravoss7014 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for drawing our attention to this rather neglected art movement which was seminal to much of the art of the 20th century and which is still very relevant.

  • @TotallySwived
    @TotallySwived Жыл бұрын

    this was one of the clearest explanations of dadaism I've ever seen

  • @anneelisefazio1934
    @anneelisefazio1934 Жыл бұрын

    Man found you last night and I love your work ty

  • @norahollin1921
    @norahollin1921 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant narration!Thank you so much.

  • @mehdi5297
    @mehdi5297 Жыл бұрын

    your channel is amazing man! wish i could support you but i live in iran. anways, thanks for the amazing content

  • @Diego-bt5hn
    @Diego-bt5hn2 жыл бұрын

    Love your vids!

  • @Spleemce
    @Spleemce Жыл бұрын

    I don't think crying is giving up.

  • @BM-ir1dr

    @BM-ir1dr

    Жыл бұрын

    You're definitely right on that. Crying is a healthy response that relieves stress and supports us to go on.

  • @doriangrayapologist
    @doriangrayapologist Жыл бұрын

    one of my favourite art movements

  • @limesushilobster
    @limesushilobster Жыл бұрын

    Would you ever consider making long videos? Going deep into explanations about certain arts ? Such as an hour or so. That would be very enjoyable But either way I love your videos as I myself do art and learning about some of my idols and different paintings history is very enjoyable. So either way I'll enjoy your videos

  • @ilmlya
    @ilmlya Жыл бұрын

    this is BEAUTIFUL!

  • @radiobob1908
    @radiobob19082 жыл бұрын

    I just binge watched Several Circles, I'm probably about to binge watch this channel, and I would appreciate recommendations of similar channels.

  • @aren7138
    @aren7138 Жыл бұрын

    Dada is shitposting and I love it

  • @artfrontgalleries1818
    @artfrontgalleries18182 ай бұрын

    I have looked at, I can't say seriously researched, the history of Dada for a couple of decades.. I have never been able to understand the work but I think I understand the reasons that it came about.

  • @marcocardia3960
    @marcocardia3960 Жыл бұрын

    Great video, as a music fan dada has a lot of similarities with the no wave punk movement, there´s also chance driven music "Indeterminacy" and the last words of the video reminded me of Frank Zappa´s work

  • @DukeOnkled
    @DukeOnkled Жыл бұрын

    I think the Dadaists of old would love the AI art revolution currently taking place.

  • @richardlopez2932
    @richardlopez2932 Жыл бұрын

    Except for names that everybody knows like Banksy and some ancient visits to Dia in my 20s, pretty much all my knowledge of art history is summed up by Crass album inserts and Winston Smith. So channels like this go a long way in making me feel like I'm catching up for lost time. (It's kinda like someone is playing Big A, little a in the back of my head and they're serving free drinks to anyone who shows up.)

  • @ChaoticAgenda
    @ChaoticAgenda Жыл бұрын

    Dada basically sounds like shitposters before the internet. War is ongoing, the planet is burning, the elite don't care. May as well embrace the absurd memes.

  • @emyuniverse
    @emyuniverse Жыл бұрын

    Memes are dada of the present day.

  • @gochadc
    @gochadc Жыл бұрын

    Sometimes when I repair electronics I take a look at a PCB or a cathode ray tube an think to myself that those are a form of art. I personally don't like dada art, but I can see the point of the art piece itself not being the art, but the idea of classifying and apreciating it as art being the art itself. Thinking about that make "fountain" make more sense to me... which might be a very not-dada think to do.

  • @renalazuardi3512
    @renalazuardi35122 жыл бұрын

    heyy could you make a video about turner for next video? thank youu 😂😍 love your videos!

  • @hamaelriaz3905
    @hamaelriaz3905 Жыл бұрын

    I NEED TO KNOW WHICH FONTS YOU USED 😍

  • @chancethadood
    @chancethadood Жыл бұрын

    thank you!

  • @BoyMeetsWorldDaDa
    @BoyMeetsWorldDaDa3 ай бұрын

    I Am DaDa , This Is A Great Video , and Yes, i Agree With Your Conclusion and preceptipn of "DaDa" at the end of the video .

  • @naosoumarcostedeschi
    @naosoumarcostedeschi Жыл бұрын

    "Right before your eyes, we pull laughter from the skies And he laughs until he cries then he dies then he dies" Karn Evil 9 - ELP

  • @yuriination
    @yuriination4 ай бұрын

    DADA ARTISTS ARE NEEDED NOW

  • @royloveday4350
    @royloveday435010 ай бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @ellab7153
    @ellab71532 жыл бұрын

    At least I know something for tomorrows paper, lol

  • @letstalksummercamp
    @letstalksummercamp2 жыл бұрын

    How can you (we) prove that chance can't produce that alignment on the picture in this particular case mentioned?

  • @TheCanvasArtHistory

    @TheCanvasArtHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    We definitely can't prove that chance didn't produce such an alignment on neither of the pictures I mentioned (the second one is even less likely to happen by chance, near impossible). However, I think it's reasonable to not believe Arp's claim, don't you?

  • @letstalksummercamp

    @letstalksummercamp

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheCanvasArtHistory Yes, reasonable. I think your interpretation is appealing. On the other hand, it might be that the arrangements in the collages are representations of chance that do not want to claim themselves as results of probability. We can see here symmetry, golden ratio, arrangements that are for me does not seem to be avant-garde tools. But these symmetries, ratios can be found, not only in art but in nature. And nature is the purest form of chance. I would say Arp wanted to depict chance instead of using it.

  • @bliggediblowm
    @bliggediblowmАй бұрын

    i really need the hannah höch video!

  • @MoveWithWoo
    @MoveWithWoo Жыл бұрын

    Dada is onomatopoeia. Like when you're having a convo, leave out some stuff dadadada y'know so on and so forth.

  • @RayullahUllah-ch9dz
    @RayullahUllah-ch9dz4 ай бұрын

    dada !

  • @RWZiggy
    @RWZiggy Жыл бұрын

    Never heard of Dada until I read 1996 novel "Rats Saw God"

  • @joeg8604
    @joeg8604 Жыл бұрын

    I liked the bit where you said Dada

  • @KeyDyer
    @KeyDyer9 ай бұрын

    This video got the Pink Panther song stuck in my head

  • @firstnamelastname-nk4ut
    @firstnamelastname-nk4ut Жыл бұрын

    When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's aDada

  • @Against_all_Systems_of_Control
    @Against_all_Systems_of_Control Жыл бұрын

    DADA/SURREALISMSA ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @babs_babs
    @babs_babs4 ай бұрын

    dada feels a lot like camp. i dig it

  • @matthewrosa7262
    @matthewrosa7262 Жыл бұрын

    DADA: The Movement Arrived With The Powerful Force OF Mass Production On The First World War And Society: Never Before Had Such HUGE Armies Been So MASSIVELY Uniformed, Armed, Trained, Fed With "Iron" (Canned) Rations Or Transported By Huge (And Huge Numbers Of) Railway Trains (Or By Mass Numbers Of Military Land Vehicles Like Cars And Trucks,) To Their Destinations In The Trenches To Be Massively KILLED By The Large Numbers Of Machine Guns And Artillery!-With The ONLY Feature Of This War That Didn't Comply With This Mass-Produced World Is The Human Being In That Uniform Or Of His Human Spirit (Who Only Complied Out Of Love For His Country And The Need To Protect It From The Enemy He Was Told ,-By His Government, -That Would Destroy It!) Instead, That No-Longer-Same Soldier After The War, -Now Lost Of His Arms, His Legs, Half Of His Face, His Vision, -Could Not Comprehend How The Military Leaders (And Those In The Government Above Them In The Rarefied Air Of Their Gold-Lined Ivory Towers,) Who Led Him And Others To Such Pointless Slaughter As For Him To Be NOTHING BUT TO BE COMPELLED To Denounce The System And Its Structure By Depicting It's Richly-Upholstered Leaders Making "Blood Money" By The War And Of Imagery Of Mass-Produced Machines Doing The Mass-Produced Slaughter!-He MIGHT Laugh As A Form Of Recourse (Being Too Small, Too Few, And Too Broken-Up Body And Soul To Move The System,) But By How He Arranges The Images, But The Product As A Tool For Denouncing The System, -And It's Impact To Demand Change More Than A Century Dow The Line, -And It's Inspiration As A Form Of Protest To This Day!

  • @willwalker6894

    @willwalker6894

    Жыл бұрын

    Why are you screaming ?

  • @kravchenko4810
    @kravchenko4810 Жыл бұрын

    Dada in Farsi means brother

  • @anlee4000
    @anlee4000 Жыл бұрын

    As someone who’s new to art expositions and has never heard of Dadaism, the first 3mins of the video sounded like someone expounding on a crack meme

  • @SurlyInsomniac
    @SurlyInsomniac Жыл бұрын

    10:18 The "Dada is not an art form" quote attributed to Albert Einstein strikes me as extremely Dada. My questions are: did Einstein actually say/write that and B: what did he mean? I have a few Dada books and did some googling, but can't find anything that sheds light on either question. I suppose a true Dadaist wouldn't care one way or the other, but I'd like to believe that Einstein was simpatico with the Dada movement.

  • @debrachambers1304
    @debrachambers1304 Жыл бұрын

    People sometimes get upset about that toilet not being real art, and I wish they'd relax and appreciate it for what it is: funny. A famous work of art is basically just a URINAL. That's so dumb. Which is funny.

  • @sacharubinstein5305
    @sacharubinstein5305 Жыл бұрын

    the ending really made me think, can we (and perhaps should we) call memes a sort of dada?

  • @peterstrianus1790
    @peterstrianus1790 Жыл бұрын

    DADA is still alive.

  • @candycane513
    @candycane51310 ай бұрын

    Take a drink every time the word Dada is mentioned😂

  • @marinothird
    @marinothird Жыл бұрын

    I think dada inspired albert camus a lot on absurdism

  • @mrfelipehurtado
    @mrfelipehurtado Жыл бұрын

    Look up FEDERICO HURTADO. Dada artist from Argentina. Cheers

  • @repent_0ne
    @repent_0ne Жыл бұрын

    Luke, I am your Dada.

  • @CainXVII
    @CainXVII Жыл бұрын

    Maybe it's time dada had a revival

  • @lucrativedoor8385
    @lucrativedoor83859 ай бұрын

    Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany. Well there you have it, pretty self explanatory.😊

  • @Jakeurb8ty82
    @Jakeurb8ty82 Жыл бұрын

    the essence of Dada is 'a pox on all your houses'

  • @michaeligloo
    @michaeligloo Жыл бұрын

    Seconds of blank slides?

  • @looselytelling
    @looselytelling Жыл бұрын

    DaDA should be taught in every art class at least once so people can stop caring about looks so much

  • @TheCodgod1996

    @TheCodgod1996

    7 ай бұрын

    Yes, it should be taught so that we realize how important it is to have standards in a society so that low IQ worthless and non beautiful art can be laughed at even more

  • @looselytelling

    @looselytelling

    Ай бұрын

    ​​@@TheCodgod1996Yes laugh, it's what it's made for (IQ is for idiots ironically).

  • @looselytelling

    @looselytelling

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@TheCodgod1996Your take is 'low IQ' but valid. I couldn't imagine thinking art had to conform to anything but itself. Your ideas of something beautiful are entirely unique to you yet predictable and no art is 'worthless' if it can be experienced then it was worth that experience again something that can't be measured because we have a beautiful thing called 'individuality'.

  • @looselytelling

    @looselytelling

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@TheCodgod1996lol

  • @stuartpounds7715
    @stuartpounds7715 Жыл бұрын

    I feel like I just wandered into a huge social hall, under dressed and just as confused as everyone else how I got here.

  • @itryen7632
    @itryen7632 Жыл бұрын

    So basically Cruelty Squad

  • @pyewackett5
    @pyewackett5 Жыл бұрын

    I see Dada as a mirror

  • @spammymgee2790
    @spammymgee2790 Жыл бұрын

    Small thing, that's not how you pronounce Höch it's more herch but the Ch is gutteral or at least a k sound :) graat video

  • @lente_direk
    @lente_direk2 жыл бұрын

    visited by LENTE

  • @MrMalcovic
    @MrMalcovic Жыл бұрын

    Laughing at the absurd, or laughing at the deadly serious in order to render in absurd?

  • @mouved1
    @mouved1 Жыл бұрын

    Anglophone: L.H.O.O.Q huh... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Francophone: HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!

  • @-divinetragedy
    @-divinetragedy Жыл бұрын

    Are we cool yet?

  • @plux-godworldlang6910

    @plux-godworldlang6910

    Жыл бұрын

    everyone was on SCPs dick when it was poppin back in the mid 2010s. get a hobby instead of quoting from shit that has NOTHING TO DO WITH DADA

  • @Heizenb3rg4
    @Heizenb3rg4 Жыл бұрын

    It’s an old meme, obviously.

  • @elizavetia6387
    @elizavetia6387 Жыл бұрын

    I love dada but what are the odds that dadaists were just fucking with us

  • @mangywolf
    @mangywolf Жыл бұрын

    loved the video, and a lot of your work, but disagree on the final bit: crying is not necessarily a sign of "giving up". just wanna normalize all them stress-relieving tears. 💦

  • @robinsghaiyer
    @robinsghaiyer Жыл бұрын

    i still dont know what it is

  • @atheistsince1210
    @atheistsince1210 Жыл бұрын

    Franqoius Rabelais would completely agree about the essential human stress relieving and psychologically elevating laughter - he wisely stated the first moment we were human and BECAME human beings are the first baby infant laughter moments that baptizes us . We’ve lost so much of this mindset and need it more than ever Todd’s nationalism and politics are a debilitating mental neurosis still butchering millions . 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡💀💀💀💀

  • @Kickboots
    @Kickboots Жыл бұрын

    So, punk is dada

  • @asmallphd9648
    @asmallphd9648 Жыл бұрын

    dada means dad

  • @robertjohnburton9775
    @robertjohnburton97752 жыл бұрын

    So Dada was a past movement not. Nothing has changed. Its not allowed to

  • @heikkijhautanen4576
    @heikkijhautanen4576 Жыл бұрын

    Well Ill be a dada.......

  • @mmcg2002
    @mmcg2002 Жыл бұрын

    soooooooo reaal

  • @scpnightmare9075
    @scpnightmare90752 жыл бұрын

    Well Dada is my last name

  • @fantasmagrande4070
    @fantasmagrande407010 ай бұрын

    BBanksy definitely doesn't belong in that category...😮

  • @viviannehunt1371
    @viviannehunt1371 Жыл бұрын

    Hi, I disagree, partly. So you say losing hope and becoming cynical, right? Thing is, some of us are natural rebels, contrarians, we refuse to be put in society's little boxes and we don't like art boxes either. I think Dada, to me, is about being myself in a world of copies. :)

  • @IsomerSoma

    @IsomerSoma

    Жыл бұрын

    A contrarian is just as much defined by the crowd as a member of the crowd is. To speak in your terms: you have taken a copy and tilted it 90° to claim how special you are 'unlike all the others.' And it isn't even that. A quick look at your channel reveals that you seem to be writing gay romance. Wow how revolutionary to write in one of the best selling book genres (romance) (no hate but this isn't exactly unconventional). Who *isn't* oneself? Everyone is unique in a way. You aren't the special one. Everyone tries to make something of their own. Everyone is heavily defined by society and reliant upon it too.

  • @ethancrank4742
    @ethancrank4742 Жыл бұрын

    Were I a Dadaist, I would want to be called a fartist

  • @mmcg2002
    @mmcg2002 Жыл бұрын

    brother whyd they call it that

  • @user-xf9wg3oy9h
    @user-xf9wg3oy9h3 ай бұрын

    Just a bunch of dudes trolling everyone before it was cool

  • @CC.R0Y
    @CC.R0Y Жыл бұрын

    My dada went out to buy milk

  • @iosiasaemilius2795
    @iosiasaemilius2795 Жыл бұрын

    today i realize that Punk rock is just a copycat of Dada

  • @richard_d_bird

    @richard_d_bird

    Жыл бұрын

    "no wave"

  • @BM-ir1dr

    @BM-ir1dr

    Жыл бұрын

    Or reinterpretation perhaps

  • @plux-godworldlang6910

    @plux-godworldlang6910

    Жыл бұрын

    today you realize that Punk rock is not a copycat of Dada

  • @CranyumHipHop
    @CranyumHipHop2 ай бұрын

    Dad is so evil. It has ripped beauty from this world

  • @looselytelling

    @looselytelling

    Ай бұрын

    *war is so evil. It has ripped beauty from this world.

  • @damfhokage4993
    @damfhokage4993 Жыл бұрын

    Absurdism in a nutshell

  • @MacCionnaith
    @MacCionnaith Жыл бұрын

    Dada is dead, long live dada

  • @cliffdariff74
    @cliffdariff74 Жыл бұрын

    PICABIA went too far in his definition... Brevity is the soul of DADA.