• nepenthes@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    In Europe, the Dada (1916) and Surrealist (1920) movements began as a response to WWI. The atrocities committed during the war devastated humanity to the point where artists couldn’t (or wouldn’t) depict the human form, let alone realism.

    Source: Art History nerd 🤓 The thing your post is trying to disparage, haha.

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      2 years ago

      Would you recommend any good podcasts on dadaism/art history in general? Looking for a kind of In Our Time/Revolutions kind of vibe where there’s less humour (but not necessarily humourless) and where it’s relatively planned out/scripted.