Dada
Dada was the first conceptual art movement where the
focus of the artists was not on crafting aesthetically pleasing
objects but on making works that often upended middleclass sensibilities and that generated difficult questions
about society, the role of the artist, and the purpose of art.
These artists showed that European
culture had lost meaning to them by
creating pieces of “anti-art” or “nonart.”
After hearing of the Dada
movement in Zürich, a
number of Parisian artists
including Andre Breton,
Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard,
and others become
interested.