Dada

Question 1

What purpose did the costume serve in the image above?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Answers may vary. The artist used his costume to bring an aspect of childhood into what he called “restrained adult lives”.

Question 2

Where did the term Dada come from, and what does it mean?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It was a nonsense word possibly chosen at random from a dictionary (French for 'hobby horse'); it has no meaning.

Question 3

Which of the following describes ready-made art?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It challenges all of the conventions of art.

Question 4

Why was the art produced during the Dada movement considered art at all?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Dada art was considered art because its artists used it to challenge conventional ideas about beauty, skill, and what could count as art. Even when a work looked absurd or ordinary, its concept and its protest against war and established culture gave it meaning.

Question 5

What was the main goal for the Dada movement?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

changing the perception of art and going against contemporary culture

Question 6

Marcel Duchamp believed that art should appeal to __________ instead of the senses.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

the intellect

Question 7

What did Hugo Ball seek to do with his poem?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

renounce language that he felt had been devastated by media

Question 8

Which of the following best describes the Dada beliefs?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

non-conformist, rebellious

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