Exhibition Revie1: Dada

       Dada movement was a revolution in the history of art, which broke the established aesthetic values and made the boundaries between work and life become blurred. Dadaists defied traditional art and they were innovative. Dada movement was led by a group of young artists and anti-war activists who expressed the disappointment with bourgeois values and the First World War through the aesthetic works and protest.
       The Dada exhibition is curated by Brett Van Hoesen that displays some Dada works by local artists and past artists which including Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain. Duchamp was one of the important representatives of Dada movement. His work aroused considerable controversy. Fountain was seen as elegant art because its name changed people’s perspective on art. He believed that art has nothing to do with art, any item can be a work of art, as well as art should be plebification and popularization. Fountain was intended to question people about what is the concept of art. 
       There are few things to make people think about what art actually is. People just assume that art is either painting or sculpture, so few people regard Fountain as a work of art. Fountain presented a thorough negation and criticism for the entire traditional art concept. The previous art schools at least acknowledged that art must have the artist’s creative process and in general art should be express beauty. However, Fountain’s appearance denied the mere concept of art. Duchamp’s subversive influence was art can be non-art and art can be not beautiful. The intention was to eliminate the superiority of art and negate the traditional art that showed Dada’s nihilistic attitude.