Dada
Dada grew out of a deliberate rejection of logic, tradition, and conventional beauty, using absurdity, chance, and irreverence as tools instead. This tag marks work carrying that same spirit, art that isn’t trying to be pretty or polished so much as strange, playful, or even a little confrontational. It often borrows unexpected materials or juxtaposes images that don’t obviously belong together. Use this tag to find work that leans into absurdity and breaks from convention on purpose, rather than by accident, the way the original Dada artists did a century ago.
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp was a French artist who steered modern art away from pretty pictures and toward ideas, helping shape Cubism, Dada, and early conceptual art. His Box in a Valise, a…
Ernst Max
Max Ernst was a German-born artist and a pioneer of both the Dada and Surrealist movements, born in Brühl in 1891. Deeply shaken by his service in World War I, he…
