Hugo Ball Dada Manifesto

  • Who wrote the document? – Hugo Ball
    • What is that person’s story? – Hugo Ball was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in 1916
    • Is the author still alive? – He died in 1927 at 41
  • What was the time and context? Why did the creator(s) write this? 1916, it was to talk about the importance of the Dada art style.
  • What was the aesthetic of the group or time? – Dada
    • Fonts – Inherit
    • Colors – Black
    • Photo/Image styles – At the bottom.
  • What change did the creator hope to start? – Get more people to use the Dada art style.
  • Was the manifesto ever realized? – Yes, used by Dada artists.
  • Can you find the value in using the manifesto yourself? – I never really heard about the Dada art style so reading this and looking at art work was very interesting and helped me realize that not every piece of art work has to make a whole lot of sense.

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