Neo Dada

The Guggenheim Museum Neo-Dada Information

Artworks and artists: Neo-Dada applies to artists who favored usage of mass media and found objects - often within a performance - that constituted a rebellion against the art world of the 1950s.

Neo-Dada is a minor audio and visual art movement that has similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada artwork.

Tate glossary definition for neo-dada: Term applied to the work of artists working in America the 1950s and 1960s which was reminiscent of the art of the early twentieth century Dada movement

A style appearing in the United States in the late 1950s that in its methods and concerns recalls Dada, whose ideas were introduced to American artists by the composer John Cage. Rejecting the overblown rhetoric and adamant nonfiguration of Abstract Expressionism, which then dominated the American avant-garde, Neo-Dadists embraced depictions of the real world and strove to integrate art and life through the use of real objects in paintings and sculpture. Two principal adherents are Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

Information about the neo-dada art movement.

NEO DADA blurred the lines between SCULPTURE and PAINTING, PERFORMANCE ART and ACTIVISM, and ultimately, between ART and LIFE, inspiring many other forms

NEO DADA was a small, but INFLUENTIAL MOVEMENT, and here we present our pick of 10 PIECES that defined and shaped this ground-breaking ART FORM

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