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One can look back through history and see a reflection of the social times through the Art
work for that time period. One artistic movement or period in the art world will influence another
either directly or indirectly. An example of this is seen in Dadaism, the artist from this movement
broke away from tradition and created non-art that was to become art, in protest to the war. After
the war many of the artist from the dada movement evolved into artist for the surrealism movement.
Europe during World War One was in social upheaval. There was a decline towards the
aristocratic, a move towards social equality. Propaganda was widely used to try to create support
for the war. Women entered the work force, and even gained the right to vote in 1918. Citizens
were starving. The military used tanks, troops, air forces, and poison gas to fight this war. The
allied nations lands, homes and economies were crippled (Wilde, n.d.).This war was not some
remote idea one could detach themselves from, the fights were in the yards of the people who
resided in these countries. Seeing war, death and starvation first hand, angered some men. These
men would start the Dada movement.
The non art movement that lasted from 1916-1923, was known as Dadaism.Dadaism is
defined as a revolt by some authors and artist in Europe , against what they saw as smugness in
Western society and traditional art, they illustrated “absurdity through paintings of purposeless
machines and collages of discarded materials, expressed their cynicism about conventional ideas
of form and their rejection of traditional concepts of beauty.” (Dadaism, n.d.). Europe gave birth
to this artistic and literacy movement as the atrocities of World War One was being fought in the

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yards of that countries citizens. Many intellectuals and artist found them...

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