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17:37 Feb 14, 2009 |
Portuguese to English translations [PRO] Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Leniel Maccaferri Brazil Local time: 06:37 | ||||||
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5 +5 | Dadaism |
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4 +5 | Dadaism |
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Dadaism Explanation: a revolt by certain 20th-century painters and writers in France, Germany, and Switzerland against smugness in traditional art and Western society; their works, illustrating absurdity through paintings of purposeless machines and collages of discarded materials, expressed their cynicism about conventional ideas of form and their rejection of traditional concepts of beauty. — Dadaist, n. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 mins (2009-02-14 17:39:33 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- dadaism - a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty |
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