Dadaism was an early 20th century avant-garde art movement that started around World War I. Dadaist valued logic among modern culutures which led to an over valuing of conformity,classism, and nationalism and led a provided and suitable enviornmnet for the horrors of WWI. Dadaist radicalized this logic to reason in favor of chaos, nonsense, and irriationality.
Max Earnst, a pioneer in Dada culture, and Hannah Hoch, an originator of photomontage, and a well known figure in the Berlin Dada movement. Both were a major influence to this movement.
Earnst created artwork that was intimate and "anti-athestic" during the 1920s. He created prints made from plates rubbings, overpaintings of catalouge illustrations, and collages. He also added lengthy titles, which as opposed to explaining his images, served to increase their mystery. The imagery during this time period--depicted landscapes, animals with human characteristics, and plants, and humans with animal like qualities, which became increasingly alluring and created a fantasy.
Hoch is a well known member in the Dada movement, and one of the first marked artists to work with photomontage techniques. Hoch's work, while staying true to the Dada roots, skillfully added a femminst mocking humor to the movement's philosphy with wrongs of society.Throughout her art, Hoch subtly showed female equality to the list of anti-bourgeois and radically leftist belief which Dada suppported. Hoch was alone in this movement while trying to portray this message, as being the only female Berlin Dadist. Hoch still established herself as a serious contributor to the artist world of early 20th century Europe, and proved herself to be the woman she admired clearly
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