| − | Dadaism was a movement in art in the early 1900s that produced whimsical and even meaningless paintings. | + | Dadaism was a movement in art in the early 1900s that produced a wide variety of visual, performed, and written "art". They were largely anti-war, and even "anti-art". Their work questioned and challenged most current conceptions about what art was and meant. They were large influences in later modernistic art trends such as surrealism. |