The Most Important Work Of Art Ever…

Is A Urinal?

How a Urinal called “Fountain” Ushered in Post-Modernism

“Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp c. 1917

The beginning of the Dada Movement in Art coincided with the outbreak of World War 1 in Europe.

Dada was a Modernist counterpoint reaction to the ideologies of Victorian society it believed had just shepherded the world into a collective massacre.

Dada was a rejection of what it’s artists saw as failed logic, and an embracing of chaos and irrationality.

Works of Dada Art often feature a collage patchwork of images, words, heads and body parts that mirrored the exploded bodies and chaotic visuals seen on battlefields of World War 1.

“Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany,” by Hannah Höch c. 1919

Raoul Hausmann’s dismembered-head was considered representative of the spirit of modern man with his external forms of measurement, dead eyes and tin cup soul, aching to be filled.

Sounds familiar. That was 1919.

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The most famous product of the Dada Movement is Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 Readymade piece, Fountain — voted in 2004 by 500 art experts…