Dadaism

Dada was more than an art form or culture,

IT WAS A STATE OF MIND.

("Canalization of Refrigerated Gas...", 1919-1920, Max Ernst)

- The Dada movement tried to express the negation of all current aesthetic and social values. Their works were designed to shock or bewilder with the aim of starting the public into reconsidering accepted aesthetic values.

- Dada works forced the observer to question accepted realities and acknowledge the role of chance and imagination.