After watching the documentary ‘Dada: The Original Art Rebels,’ that I provided you with the link above, answer the following set of questions. Answer each question fully and with complete sentences.
1.)
What art some of the definitions for the term ‘Dada’ and why is it fitting for the term to have multiple meanings?
2.)
Why was Zurich such an important location for the founding members of the Dada art movement? What did this city in Switzerland provide for them during WWI?
3.)
How did the artists performing at the Cabaret Voltaire choose to entertain their audience? What was involved in these performances?
4.)
With the close of the first world war in 1918, artists began returning to their countries of origin. The center of the Dada collective was relocated to Berlin, Germany. In what ways did the activities of the Berlin Dadaists differ from the artists in Zurich at the Cabaret Voltaire?
5.)
Name and describe a few of the artworks displayed at the first exhibition of the Berlin Dada collective – the Dada Fair.
6.)
What were the two revolutionary new art forms that Dada artists pioneered while working in Berlin?
7.)
In Zurich, Dada artists attacked language, challenging its meaning and value especially in circumstances of social and religious ritual. In Berlin, they satirized and rebelled against the political establishment, its hypocrisy, corruption and established their movement as being firmly anti-war. How did the artist Marcel Duchamp shake things up in New York and why is this considered to be thoroughly “Dada”?
8.)
Describe the new direction that Dada artists in Cologne, Germany took in displaying and exhibiting their artwork. Why did the artist Max Ernst attach an axe to his wooden sculpture and why was the viewing public so offended?
9.)
Once the Dada artists were all collected in Paris, France and the movement became more organized, it quickly fell apart with the collective disbanding towards different directions. What were a few reasons for the Dada art movement falling apart, and Dada being declared dead?
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