Born in Europe amid the insanity of World War I, Dada was an art movement like no other—it rejected reason and agendas and embraced absurdism wherever it found it. Skip to Main Content.

I KNOW that I am important as a factor in the development of art and always will remain so," Dadaist Kurt Schwitters wrote in 1931. ... Art: BIG DADA. 3 minute read. TIME.

In two current Bay Area museum exhibitions, we can glimpse an essential divergence in early 20th century art between collage the way Pablo Picasso - its inventor - practiced it and the way Kurt ...

Kurt Schwitters was one of the great European modern artists - a founder of the Dada movement in Germany, and an inventor of the technique we now call collage - piecing artworks together from ...

In a commissioned work for the South African Pavilion Without Walls, William Kentridge reimagines one Dada classic, the sound poem Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters, a Hannover-based artist and ...

Whenever a new school of painting and sculpture arises, somebody is bound to ask, "but is it art?" Almost a century later, you can still find people asking that question at Washington, D.C.'s ...

After attempts to save it, the studio of Kurt Schwitters—who escaped Nazi Germany to become one of England’s great Absurdists—is to be sold . ... a form of Dadaism and a prototype for Pop art.

"I am a painter and I nail my pictures together," Kurt Schwitters said to fellow artist Tristan Tzara in 1919. At a time when German art was a heady mix of Expressionism's yellow cows, Cubist ...

View Mz 406 by Kurt Schwitters on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Kurt Schwitters. Price Database. 09 November 2024. Artists. Auctions. Galleries. Events. News. Price Database. Hidden ...