Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition. The name 'Dada' was reputedly arrived at during a meeting of the group when a paper knife stuck into a French-German dictionary happened to point to 'dada', a French word for 'hobbyhorse.An example of Dada art work is L.H.O.O.Q. to the right. It shows a famous piece of art work (Mona Lisa) defaced/vandalised.
This made me think of defacing/vandalising an image of someone as another way of taking the mess out of stereotypes. I don't have to just stick to caricatures, though this is something I'm interested in.
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