Ben Comley-Excell Unit 67 - 3D Animation: HA14 Task 2 – Dada and Sophie Taeuber-Arp Research

The Dada Movement

Dada was an artistic movement that began in Switzerland in reaction to world war one. Many people believed that it's nationalism had led to the beginning of the war. Dada was the first art movement which was able to take away the nature of beauty from the artwork and instead show a representation of the middle class and society's difficult questions.It came about in the early 20th century at Cabaret Voltaire and then moved to Berlin shortly after. Dada artists are most famous for their use of ready made objects which are everyday objects that can be used and presented as great artwork with not much input from the artist. However this was seen as a negative for the artists as people argued they lacked creativity and imagination which is very important in the art world.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Name: Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber-Arp

Born and Died: 19 January 1889 - 13 January 1943

Profession: Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, and dancer

Early Life: Sophie was born in Davos, Switzerland. She attended school in Munich at a school of Arts and Crafts. In 1915 Sophie met the Dada artist Jean Arp at the tanner gallery. She went on to produce work with Jean and eventually married him in 1922. Sophie Taeuber-Arp is the only woman on the current series of Swiss banknotes in Switzerland; her portrait has been on the 50-franc note since 1995.