13 Poems of Dadaism of Great Authors (Short)

Dadaism was an artistic movement that sought to demolish the foundations of the idea about art that existed at the beginning of the 20th century.

He was born in the city of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916. At that time the First World War was taking place and the city received many exiles fleeing the conflict in their native countries. In that city great part of the European intelligentsia of the time came that allowed that the movement gained talented adepts quickly.

It was formed around the Voltaire Cabaret where the usual shows of the great capitals were parodia and place open for the gathering and the experimentation.

This space was the germ propitious for several magazines and artistic proposals were generated that expressed the revolutionary ideas that the movement pursued.

Dadaism was a response to bourgeois society, to the brutality of war and, above all, to the art that this generated. The destruction of all the artistic codes and systems of the moment was then proposed.

To achieve their goals, they declared themselves against all logic. They preferred the spontaneous, the random and the contradictory. They preferred chaos instead of order, satire, and irony. That is why humor played a fundamental role in the development of its proposals.

Among the techniques they used were collage, found object, automatic writing and sound poems. It was not uncommon to come to a meeting of Dadaists and find a group of people reciting poetry at the same time, confused by the sound of overlapping words and losing all real meaning.

The ultimate goal was to impact on the viewer audience as a way to recover the wonder and the naturalness of children. Let's look at some Dadaist poems and the men who wrote them.

Great Dadaist poems by well-known authors

-Tristan Tzara

Although not among the first members of Dadaism, Tristan Tzara was undoubtedly his most prominent figure and main promoter. From his arrival to the movement, the writer of Romanian origin was given the task of spreading his ideas through letters and publications.

However, his main contribution to Dadaist poetry is Seven manifestoes dada Where he elaborates, with the proverbial nonchalance that characterizes the Dadaists, some proposals on what art and poetry should be.

Tzara takes the ironic intention and writes a formula or manual to make a poem:

To make a dadaist poem

Pick up a newspaper.

Take some scissors.

Choose in the newspaper an article of length that tells you to give your poem.

Cut out the item.

Carefully cut out each of the words that make up the item carefully and put them in a bag.

Shake gently.

Now pull each cutting one after another.

Copy conscientiously

In the order they have left the bag.

The poem will resemble you.

And you are an infinitely original writer and a bewitching sensibility, although misunderstood by the vulgar.

However, he does not just stay with the recipe, he literally leaves us a bewildering example of the result of his method:

When dogs pass through the air in a diamond like ideas and the meningeal appendage signals the time to wake up program

Prizes are yesterday agreeing immediately pictures

To appreciate the dream time of the eyes

Pompously to recite the gospel genre darkened

Group the apotheosis imagine say it fatality of colors

Carved hangers hanged reality a charm spectator all to the effort of is no longer 10 to 12

During ramification caracoleos descends pressure

To go crazy one after another on a monstrous chair crushing the stage

Celebrate but its 160 adherents in step in the positions in my nacrado

Lavish land plantains held clear

Jubilation

Of the one so much that I invoked him of the visions

She sings she laughs

Out situation disappears describe that 25 dance save

Dissimulated everything from is not was

Magnificent ascension has the best light band whose sumptuous scene me music-hall

Reappear

Business that did not lend 1 way words come those people

- Wieland Herzfelde

One of the great mysteries of Dada is the origin of the name. There are many versions found. Some say it was chosen by playing with a dictionary at random. Others who imitate the Russian language.

There are also those who argue that alludes to a wooden horse toy. The fact is that it was not of great importance to the Dadaists. Tristan Tzara in one of his manifestos clearly says it: Dada means nothing .

This lack of meaning reflects the search for pure language that is not a prisoner of meaning. Like the speech of a child. That's why they experiment by inventing words, playing with sonority and chance.

In the following text of Wieland Herzfelde, German publisher, bookseller and gallery owner, is an excellent example of the search for that new language:

Funebrulicular Corner

I wish I wanted

There's my aunt sitting

Since Ephraim swallowed the piggy bank

Wander - ayayay -

Out there and do not pay taxes.

Wirt bathed in sweat massages his ass

With application!

Safte vita rati route sqa momofantieja,

What are you crying, old woman?

Oelisante is dead! Oelisante is dead!

Cielosantodiosmocrucifixiosrrachoschockmiseriaextrema!

I still owed fifteen and fifty cents.

- Hugo Ball

The creation of Cabaret Voltaire was fundamental for the establishment of Dadaism. It is created not only for the intellectual gathering but also for political debate. Hugo Ball, one of its founders, is the one who writes the Inaugural manifesto of the first Dada evening .

In addition, it writes the first phonetic poem dadaísta:"Karawane". In the poem is abandoned any intention of sense seeking a primordial language that is free of any intellectual bias.

The word then adopts characteristics that bring it closer to music and the visual arts. It looks for an original sonority and, at the same time, plays with the typographies and techniques of impression of the time.

- Emmy Hennings

The other founder of Cabaret Voltaire, Emmy Hennings, represents one of the few female names rescued in the history of Dadaism.

A companion to the life and work of Hugo Ball, Hennings was instrumental in the development of the shows and works that were performed in Cabaret. She excelled as a singer, dancer, actress and poet.

After the cabaret

I'm going home early in the morning.

The clock strikes five, it is already day,

But the light is still on at the hotel.

The cabaret has finally closed.

In a corner children curl up,

The workers are already going to the market

The church goes silent and old.

From the tower ring the bells,

And a whore with wild curls

It still wanders there, out of date and freezing.

Love me purely for all my sins.

Look, I've been up more than one night.

- Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes

Perhaps one of the fundamental characteristics that marked the dadaísta movement was the elimination of the borders between the different disciplines.

The pages of the magazine DADAIST Served for plastic artists and poets to experiment in other formats that did not dominate.

George Ribemont-Desaignes is a clear example of this. Poet, playwright and painter, Dada allowed him to explore various forms of expression.

- Oh! -

He put his hat on the ground and filled it with dirt.

And he sowed a tear with his finger.

A great geranium came up, so big.

Inside the foliage matured an indefinite number of pumpkins

He opened a mouth full of gold-crowned teeth and said,

I Greek!

He shook the branches of Babylon's willow that refreshed the air.

And his pregnant wife, through the skin of her belly,

He showed the child a crescent moon born dead

He put on his head the hat imported from Germany.

The woman aborted Mozart,

While passing in an armored car

A harpist,

And in the middle of the sky, pigeons,

Mexican doves ate canarides.

- Francis Picabia

Dadaism had a strong impact on the plastic arts by representing an alternative to the trends of the time such as cubism and abstract art. It represented an ideal place to create independent and original works.

Among the artists related to the movement we can mention Marcel Duchamp, Hans Arp and Francis Picabia. The latter, will use the different Dadaist publications to illustrate their covers and publish their poems.

Prolonged lips

On the mouth of hashish

On the neck of the bed

Cut to the buttonhole

Double whispered effect

I have seen

The onion soup

Burst like a gong

Great discount

- Raoul Hausmann

The relationship between Dadaist poetry and the plastic arts quickly became somewhat narrower. And the pages of the magazines were limited to the new proposals. New formats had to be created.

The poem-poster of Raoul Hausmann is an example of this. It is the same search outside the sense and the same typographic game. But not supported in a publication but in a larger poster.

- Kurt Schwitters

Among these multidisciplinary artists, undoubtedly stands out the name of Kurt Schwitters. A fundamental figure in the development of collage techniques, he created a particular form called Merz .

Her poem"A Ana Flor"represents an attempt to translate these techniques into the field of poetry. The text contains a multitude of points of view, pieces of other poems and the loss of strict sense through fragmentation and parody of love texts.

To Ana Flor

Oh, you, beloved of my 27 senses, I love you!

You, from you, you, I, you, you, me - - - us?

This, by the way, is not the place.

Who are you, countless slut, are you, are you?

People say you would be.

Let them talk, they do not know how the bell tower stands.

You wear your hat on your feet and walk on your hands,

On the hands you walk.

Hello, Your red dresses, sawn in white folds,

Red I love you Ana Flor, red I love you.

You, from you, you, I, you, you, me - - - us?

Its place is, by the way, on the cold embers.

Ana Flor, red Ana Flor, what do people say?

COMPETITION:

1.) Ana Flor has a bird.

2.) Ana Flor is red.

3.) What color is the bird.

Red is the color of your yellow hair,

Red is the color of your green bird.

You, simple girl in everyday clothes,

You, dear green animal, I love you!

You, from you, you, I, you, you, me - - - us?

His place, by the way, is - - - in the brazier.

Ana Flor, Ana, A - - - N - - -A!

I open your name drop by drop.

Your name drips like soft tallow.

You know, Ana, you know already,

Which can also be read from behind?

And you, you, the most wonderful of all,

You are behind as before:

ANA

Tallow drips CARICIAS down my back.

Ana Flor,

You, you dripping animal,

I to???? to???? to???? You to???? to???? love!

Also, Schwitters, inspired by Hausmann's poem-poster, devised the sound poetry"Ursonate". The piece takes the form of a sonata and reproduces guttural sounds, vowels and consonants.

For his execution, the poet and artist wrote several pages detailing how the interpretation should be. At the end of the 1980s, a recording by the author himself was performed by chance, interpreting the piece. It can be heard below:

- Man Ray and Christian Morgenstern

After the war ended, Dadaism spread to different parts of Europe and America. In New York, Duchamp, Arp and Man Ray would be their ambassadors.

In this context, the search for the original language also completely abandoned the word. It no longer needed a succession of letters to allude and parody. Man Ray's optical poem only insinuates its shape through a series of lines or studs.

Christian Morgenstern's poem"Night Song of the Fish"does not even need reference to a classic form of the poem, but refers to the fish mentioned in the title.

Night song of the fish

- Walter Serner

The drastic and destructive attitude of the Dadaists could not be sustained for a long time. The astonishment and scandal ceased to have any effect.

With the same vehemence that arose, it went out. Walter Serner with great irony, noted in the following poem the exhaustion of the movement.

Read Shakespeare

Read Shakespeare

I was a real idiot

But read Francis Picabia

Leed to Ribemont-Dessaignes

Read Tristan Tzara

And you will not read any more.

- Philippe Soupault

Dadaism laid the foundations for new aesthetic proposals that emerged in the postwar period. Surrealism then became the most influential movement then.

Its founders, André Breton and Louis Aragon were seduced by Dadaism and collaborated in their publications. The surrealistic techniques they developed derived from dada.

They shared the disdain for classical art, the abandonment of the search for sentid, the need to innovate and the political stance. The French Philippe Soupault was the impeller of both movements.

Easements

It was night yesterday

But the light ads sing

Trees are stretched

The wax statue of the hairdresser smiles at me

Forbidden to spit

No smoking

Sunshine in your hands you told me

There are fourteen

I invented unknown streets

New continents bloom

The newspapers will be leaving tomorrow

Beware of paint

I'll walk naked with my cane in my hand.

- Richard Hüelsenbeck

A controversy between André Breton and Tristan Tzara in 1922 marks the end of the dadaist movement. It was a movement that would influence all the later avant-garde tendencies.

Its importance is fundamental and its legacy reaches until the pop art, the happenig and the conceptual art. However, Richard Hüelsenbeck, dadaist from the beginning, until the moment of his death in 1970 insisted that Dada still exists .

Plain

Cinnabar timbal pork bladder raw raw raw

Theosophia pneumatica

The great spiritual art = poème bruitiste interpreted

For the first time by Richard Hüelsenbeck DaDa

O o birribán birribán the ox turns without stopping or

Drilling work for pieces of light mortar mines 7.6 cm. Chauceur

Percentage soda calc. 98/100%

Dog sample damo birridamo holla di funghi quella di mango damai da

Give it to me, damo

Brrs pffi commencer Abrr Kpppi commence principle principle

I have faith in the house asked

work

work

Brä brä brä brä brä brä brä brä brä

Sokobauno sokobauno.

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