0 a movement (= a new style or set of principles) in art, literature, music, and film developed in the early 20th century that went against accepted ideas of what is beautiful or good art and used humour and the absurd (= things considered silly or that make no sense) as a way to protest against society:
Movements like Surrealism and Dada had the ethos that middle-class culture and society were banal and repressive, and needed to be outraged.
In Paris, Miró participated in the Dada movement.
Dada grew out of the pessimism associated with the First World War and, blaming the violence of the War on bourgeois values, attacked the art object as the most obvious expression of bourgeois taste.
He made sculptures that revealed the influence of Dada with their sly wit.
This paper will look at the relationship of his work to the earlier avant-garde practices of Dada.
Dada artists used chance and collaboration as a catalyst for creativity.
With works like L.H.O.O.Q. (the one where he painted a mustache and goatee on the Mona Lisa), Duchamp founded the Dada movement and started an avalanche of art that was incomplete without the laugh.
