Explain how Dada and surrealism reflect the feelings of a culture gone mad after the devastation of WWI.

Read the Dada Manifesto and the google artwork by Marcel Duchamp, Ren Magritte, Salvador Dal, Francis Picabia, and Giorgio de Chirico, among other Dada and surrealist artists.

Explain how Dada and surrealism reflect the feelings of a culture gone mad after the devastation of WWI.

If the ages of science and reason and industry led to the mayhem and suffering of that war, these artists asked, why should anyone have faith in logic, reason, or the beauty of art when life seems so arbitrary, desolate, and deranged? Notice how these artists prefer to explore the world of dreams and the unconscious than the surface world of objective, ordinary life.

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