Tristan Tzara was a Romanian poet and writer who was a major figure in founding the Dada art movement in reaction to World War 1. He collaborated with other artists in Zurich to establish Cabaret Voltaire in 1916, which helped launch Dada. Dada began as a literary genre but soon expanded to performance and visual arts. The movement spread to other cities and countries, involving many influential artists before eventually evolving into Surrealism led by Andre Breton in the 1920s. Tzara made important contributions to Dada and avant-garde art through his writings, performances, and leadership before his death in 1963.

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2. Tristan Tzara (born
Samuel or
SamyRosenstock, a.ka. S.
Samyro; April 16 1896, in
Romania
Born into a Jewish
family, his 1st language was
probably Yiddish, his
second Romanian, and his
adopted language French.
In fact the majority of his
work was written in
French.
 Having been sent away
to boarding school at
11, he actually started his
writing career with the
magazine Simbolul, under
the direction of Adrian
Maniu, when he was 16.
Dada 1, ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich, July 1917), cover, and Dada 2, ed.
(PoemHunter.com) Tristan Tzara (Zurich, December 1917), cover. (Hoffman)

3.  So Tzara was a major
―president‖ in Dada, the
movement to end all
movements, in reaction to that
War to end all wars, WWI or the
Great War.
Avant-garde poet, essayist
and performance artist. Also
active as a
journalist, playwright, literary
and art critic, composer and
film director (Hoffman)
 So Tzara collaborated with
other Romanian Jews —
notably Marcel and Georges
Janco to start the Dadaist
movement. (Sanderson)
Dada 3, ed. Tristan Tzara
(Zurich, December 1918), cover. (Hoffman)

4. During WWI, Tzara joined Marcel
Janco in Switzerland at the Cabaret
Voltaire and performed
drama, recited his poetry and his
Dadaist manifestos.
 Though nobody knows where the
term comes from, some say Dada
―in French it means ‗hobby horse.‘
In German it means ‗good-bye,‘ ‗Get
off my back,‘ ‗Be seeing you
sometime.‘ In Romanian:
‗Yes, indeed, you are right, that's
it.‖ (Spencer) Dada 3, ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich, December 1918).
(Hoffman)

5. From Dada Manifesto
Dadaist Disgust (KennethDouglas)
Dada 4–5 (Anthologie Dada), ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich, May
1919), cover. (Hoffman)

6. •In Zürich, Tzara met many writers and artist who would later found the Dadaist movement. Among these were Hugo Ball and his wife Emmy Hennings, who ren
whoent
 The Troupe in Zürich
Hugo Ball and his wife
Emmy Hennings, Hans
Arp, Arthur Segal, Otto Van
Rees, Max
Oppenheimer, Marcel
Janco, Richard
Huelsenbeck, and Marcel
Stodki. (Gullette)
 Though the movement
began as a literary
venue, it quickly moved to
performance and visual
arts movement. (Sayre)
Der Dada 3, ed. Raoul Hausmann (Berlin, April 1920), cover.
(Hoffman)

7.  Many authors, and
artists from
France, Germany, and
Italy joined the
movement.
 Eventually, artists from
the United States joined
the fray. (Hartt)
391 2, ed. Francis Picabia (Barcelona, February 10, 1917), cover.
(Hoffman)

8. From France, it was Marcel
Duchamp who led the
movement with his
outrageous paintings and
sculptures.
← In this
painting,
Marcel
Duchamp
integrates
the Cubist
to the
Futurists
in a brave
Dadaist
way.
Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase 1912 (Swanson) The Blind Man 1, eds. Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, and Henri-
Pierre Roché (New York, April 10, 1917), cover. (Hoffman)

9. → The photo to the left
shows Duchamp‘s
readymade sculpture of a
urinal, which he aptly
called Fountain. (Hoffman)
he Blind Man 2, eds. Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, and
Henri-Pierre Roché (New York, May 1917), pp. 2–3. (Hoffman)

10. IIn 1918, Francis
Picabia, and Marcel
Duchamp, from France, and
Man Ray from the
U.S., formed the Nihilist
offshoot from Dada.
This movement was
extreme Dada, Nihilism is
―the belief that all values
are baseless and that Neozubair.worldpress.com
nothing can be known or
communicated. It is often
associated with extreme
pessimism and a
radical skepticism that
condemns existence. A true
nihilist would believe in
nothing, have no
loyalties, and no purpose
other than, perhaps, an www.niilists.net

11. Dada in Paris, 1920
With: Louis
Aragon, Breton, and
Ribemont-
Dessaignes, Arp and
Tzara from Zurich, Man
Ray and Picabia from
New York, and Max Ernst
from Cologne. (Sayre)
, (Hoffman) & (ArtHistory.net)
Dada 6 (Bulletin Dada), ed. Tristan Tzara (Paris, February
1920), cover. (Hoffman)

12. Dadaism eventually
evolved into Surrealism.
André Breton led the
charge and change to
surrealism. (Hoffman) but second
sourced fro Breton‘s Manifeste du surrealisme
Minotaure 10, ed. Albert Skira (Paris, Winter 1937), cover
(Hofman).

13.  Though the
Surrealist movement
began as a literary
genre, it too quickly
evolved into a visual
art movement.
To name a few:
André
Breton, Salvador
Dalí,Giorgio de
Chirico, Robert
Desnos, Marcel
Duchamp, and Michel
Leiris.
 We should also add
the Ultraistaslike
Jorge Luis Borges.
(Hoffman), (Pratt) & (Spenser)
La Révolution surréaliste 12, ed. André Breton
(Paris, December 15, 1929), cover. (Hoffman)

14. I wrote this tribute to Dalí and his expressed
philosophy of Gastro Esthetic Cannibalism when I
was 18:
To Dalí or ―Gastro Aesthetic Cannibalism‖
Munching on fingers,
I assimilate,
osmosize sculpture art;
grace metaphors.
Those moths—not butterflies in stomach,
feed on each other,
death-head victor,
rends gastric-walls
in carnivore –jaws.
Lust tastes, wants and screams insatiably –more!
more!
That wind, of hate, hungers for our warmth,
gnaws at corners of cloth-skins,
and sins.
Beauty-day consumes beast-ugly-night, (Salvidordalipaintings.blogspot.com)
and moon that sun
and we that son of God?
My favorite surrealist artist is
Tears and rivers erode
-bits of wealth-
Salvador Dalí and this painting is
from Earth and brow; called The Persistence of Memory
(both being faces and planets)
leaving—only
rotting fearsome stench
and time.
Life in lark exaltation, death in black-raven shriek
-‖cosmic orality‖-
consuming all.

15. .
Poems from Borges
Lluvia
Bruscamente la tarde se ha
Rain
aclarado
The afternoon has brightened up at last
Porque ya cae la lluvia minuciosa.
For rain is falling, sudden and minute.
Cae o cayó. La lluviaesunacosa
Falling or fallen. There is no dispute:
Que sin dudasucede en el pasado.
Rain is a thing that happens in the past.
Quien la oyecaer ha recobrado
Who hears it fall retrieves a time that fled
El tiempo en que la
When an uncanny windfall could disclose
suerteventurosa
To him a flower by the name of rose
Le revelóunaflorllamadarosa
And the perplexing redness of its red.
Y el curioso color del colorado.
Falling until it blinds each windowpane
Estalluviaqueciega los cristales
Out in a lost suburbia this rain
Alegrará en perdidosarrabales
Shall liven black grapes on a vine inside
Las negrasuvas de unaparra en
cierto
A certain patio that is no more.
A longed-awaited voice through the
Patio queya no existe. La mojada
downpour
Tarde me trae la voz, la
vozdeseada, Is from my father. He has neverdied. . (A. Z.
De mi padre quevuelve y que no ha Forman)
muerto. (A. Z. Forman)

16. Tristan Tzara dies in 1963
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