“Churches have become castles in the clouds … Above is below, and below is above… the world showed itself to be a blind juxtapositioning and opposing of uncontrolled forces.”

Hugo Ball described the artists of Dada seeking what is essential and what is spiritual. Dada was not a movement, but when Avant-garde, anarchistic artists of this age turn against traditional art. They broke the constraints of realism and began cutting up materials, combining and creating some of the earliest collages.

*At a lecture given at the Galerie Dada, April 7 1917