Artist: Kurt Schwitters
Date: 1922
Size: 22 x 16 cm
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
Technique: Collage
Dadaism, one of the most intriguing artistic movements of the twentieth century, was born in Zurich, home to many émigrés, and at the same time a string of artists working in New York, Berlin and Paris began working in a similar vein. Developing as a reaction to the war, this trend set itself against bourgeois values and artistic conventions, while it lauded irrationalism and intuition in place of reason and logic.Kurt Schwitters, after his application was rejected, was never formally a member of the movement, yet he became the most consistent proponent of Dadaist ideas. His Merz pictures and reliefs (the nonsensical word was taken from a fragment of the German word
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