AT@gallery: Look Back(2)From Dadaism to Surrealism

Generally speaking, people have identified with the fact that the Surrealism is mostly generated from the Dadaism.

-------- Dadaism(1916-1923)

Dadaism first sprouted in Switzerland during the First World War. It was leaded by young artists and the anti-war groups.

"Dada is a state of mind... Dada is artistic free thinking... Dada gives itself to nothing... ."

They expressed their desperate to the first world war as well as to the value of the bourgeoisie.That is the reason why they had the nihilistic attitude and meanwhile set the norm of ‘ruin everything'. Gradually, countries near Switzerland started to be influenced by the Dadaism, especially France and Germany.

Examples of Dadaism works

Dadaism poem for two face to face

Dadaism painting

Dadaism Photograph

Dadaism video work

Dadaism music

-------From Dadaism to Surrealism

Step 1: The Dadaism preparation

Beginning: 1913 by Duchamp, the person who made the first attempt to add mustache to Mona Lisa . (Marcel Duchamp,1887--1968)

Step 2: The first declaration(1924-1929)

Different from the Dadaism, in this period, they started to set goals and began to have theory.

Representative personage: André Breton（1896–1966）， the person who declare the ' declaration of the Surrealism'.

Step 3: Period of the great prosperity(1929-1941)

In this period, the artists of the surrealism held lots of the exhibitions. Through the period, thousands of surrealism works were published. However, unfortunately, the wonderful process was interrupted by the Second World War.