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There, he collaborated with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), as well as Beatrice Wood and others, in expanding the radical, anti-art movement in the US. Having independent means, Picabia was able to spend the war years travelling between Europe and the US promoting modern art.

Francis Picabia, a French painter associated with Cubism, first visited New York in 1913 for the opening of the Armory Show, a major exhibition of contemporary art from Europe and the US. New York was another popular center for artistic exiles during WWI. The movement after the war quickly spread to Berlin and Cologne, and later to Paris. Hence, the movement rejected the logic and reason of bourgeois capitalism, and embraced irrationality. Hence, a movement was born.įor many, Dada protested the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, believed to be the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity - in art and more broadly in society - that corresponded to the war.

This venue served as part night club, part arts center where artists would exhibit their work to a backdrop of experimental music, poetry, readings and dance. Zurich was a melting pot for exiles and on February 5th, 1916 the writer Hugo Ball and his partner Emmy Hemmings opened ‘Cabaret Voltaire,’ a rendezvous for the more radical element of the avant-garde. Why have I not been told of it?” - Hans Christian Andersen, from “The Nightingale” Dadaism and Cabaret Voltaireĭuring World War I many artists, writers and intellectuals who opposed to the war, mostly Germans and a few Romanians, sought refuge from conscription in Switzerland. “There is a very wonderful bird mentioned here, called a nightingale,” said the emperor of China “they say it is the best thing in my large kingdom. In “The Chinese Nightingale,” he dresses an English bomb with the fan of an oriental dancer act, named after the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

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Between 19, Max Ernst, wounded in the war as an artilleryman, produced a series of collages combining illustrations of militaria with human limbs.

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