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Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (1913) Fantasia 1940 The Rite of Spring Part 2 Evolution YouTube2. Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 - Boulez. Arnold Schönberg - Pierrot Lunaire - P. Boulez - Ensemble InterContemporain - G.Silja. John Cage's 4'33" (1952) John Cage | Sonatas and Interludes 1946-1948 (Thomas Nicholson) Dada Movement, Artists and Major Works | The Art Story. Synopsis Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland.

It arose as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war. Influenced by other avant-garde movements - Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism - its output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting, and collage. Dada's aesthetic, marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, proved a powerful influence on artists in many cities, including Berlin, Hanover, Paris, New York, and Cologne, all of which generated their own groups.

The movement dissipated with the establishment of Surrealism, but the ideas it gave rise to have become the cornerstones of various categories of modern and contemporary art. Key Ideas So intent were members of Dada on opposing all norms of bourgeois culture that the group was barely in favor of itself: "Dada is anti-Dada," they often cried. Most Important Art.