Apollinaire himself said that his play De him Les mamelles de Tirésias Tirésiass Boobs was a surrealist piece. Guillaume Apollinaire However this label used by Apollinaire did not have the meaning that ended up being given to the movement headed by André Breton and that would also adopt the name of surrealist. invitationmamelles Before continuing it is essential to stop at the movement immediately prior to surrealism Dadaism. Dadaism direct antecedent of surrealism Dadaism was born faced with the brutality of the First World War in Zurich Switzerland when Hugo Ball founded Cabaret Voltaire in February. In turn it fed on other constructivism or cubism. However as Shelley Esaak says Dada …was not a movement its artists not artists and its art not art.
And it is that Dadaism is an absurdity that lives in art and from art but whose e-commerce photo editing vocation was not to become a monolithic and imperishable school. On the contrary it was a response to that I really wanted to provoke an emotional reaction in the viewer usually shock or anger. cabaret voltaire Among the first Dadaists were Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings and later they joined fundamental figures such as Tristán Tzara Richard Huelsenbeck Marcel Banco or Hans Arp. Dadaism arises out of anger against the cultural political and social values of its time. To a large extent more than an artistic style it is a protest movement against the establishment.
Tristán Tzara himself wrote The beginnings of Dada do not arise from art but from disgust. Dadaist forms of expression were very diverse and ranged from sculpture painting collage poetry and of course photography. The movement spread from Zurich to other cities such as Paris Berlin Hanover and New York. Specific Dadaist groups arose in many of these metropolises. In fact the American artist Man Ray would go on to be a major figure in Dadaism in New York and later a prominent photographic figure in Surrealism. City and become a good friend of Man Ray. Francis Picabia Dadaism was one of the first movements where the important thing was not to create an aesthetically beautiful object but to serve as a provocation against bourgeois sensibilities.