Dada/Dadaism
Is a cultural movement which beginnings correspond to the outbreak of World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. This informal international movement had participants in Europe and North America. The movement involved visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestos, art theory, theater and graphic design which concentrated its anti-war politics through views of the common standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Dada participants main purpose was to ridicule what they considered to be meaninglessness of the modern world.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943)
She was born on January 19, 1889 in Davos, Switzerland from a German father and a Swiss mother. Her real name was Sophie Henriette Gerturd Taeuber and she was a Swiss artist, painter and sculptor. Taeuber became one of the only Swiss participants in Zurich Dada activities with her artist husband Jean Arp/Hans Arp. Jean Arp was a Alsatian artist and poet with whom Taeuber collaborated on numerous joint projects until her death. Taeuber met Arp in 1915 and married in 1922. Tragically, Taeuber died of an accidental gas poisoning while in Zurich attempting to obtain passage to the United States.
THESE ARE SOME OF HER WORKS:
Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles
Interesting to know that during this era women also became part of this movement of expressions and Dadaism without any persecutions.
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