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Dadaist

Dadaist

9.3
Related to the Dada art movement and showing absurd or silly ideas that reject usual art rules
  • adjective
  • /ˈdɑːdəɪst/
translation icon : dadaísta
  • Well, he celebrates the unfortunate life of... I can't remember the man's name, Solomon... the unfortunate life of the man, Solomon, who is a drifter of Dadaist persuasion.

Examples

  • That the statues are figures of women demonstrates that these seemingly discordant interpretations of the sculpture, as either Dadaist contamination or humanist unification, actually reinforce each other.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • For him, his more structured abstract work was just as much Dadaist as the nonabstract work of other Dadaists and his own later nonabstract, more prototypically Dadaist film Ghosts Before Breakfast (1927).

    Academic text (2003)

  • This is not a Futurist picture; it is, namely, a Dadaist picture, and indeed an excellent one.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Drifter of Dadaist persuasion.

    Howl (2010)

  • 33 "In contrast to its Dadaist grandparents," Adorno cautioned, "it degenerates at once into culture, and it cannot remain unaffected by this."

    Academic text (1997)

  • So does Rapunzel, just with fairy-tale trappings (rather than the dadaist nightmare tableau of the main quest).

    Blog text (22)

  • In dialectical jargon: "negation of the negation" or synthesis coming after the Cubist thesis and the Dadaist antithesis.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Aufhebung is the Dadaists' word for what their movement does to the traffic in art, and the cover page evokes the trebled meaning that can be attached to that term: the Dada Fair "maintained" the art trade to the extent that it put Dadaist products on the market; at the same time, and indeed thereby, the exhibition aimed to generate within the walls of a well-situated Berlin art gallery.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The Dadaist exhibition featured artworks that made fun of traditional styles and embraced absurdity.

  • His Dadaist approach to sculpture challenged the notion of what art could be, often using everyday objects in unexpected ways.

Synonyms

dadaistic
vsDadaist
  • Literature
9.9

Showing strange, playful works that break normal art rules

focuses on absurdity and anti-art nonsense rather than rejecting tradition

How Absurd

absurd
288 4.4
Dadaist
9.3

Surface Forms

Dadaist positive

Morphology

Dadaist = Dada (transparent) = Dada + ist

Built from the proper name 'Dada' plus the productive suffix '-ist' meaning 'related to' or 'follower of Dada', so the relation is direct for learners who know 'Dada'.

Etymology

Dadaist comes from Dada, a name chosen by artists that may come from a French child's word for 'hobbyhorse' or simply a baby word like 'dada'. Dada art loved nonsense and breaking the usual rules, so calling something Dadaist means it is strange, absurd, or meant to challenge normal ideas of art.