'Dada': Ready-Made Disobedience. March 3, ... most surprising about the National Gallery of Art's weighty "Dada," a roughly 450-object survey of the early 20th century's most seismic art movement ...

Dada was an absurd, outrageous, puzzling international art movement inspired by World War I. It used art to comment on the modern world its hypocrisies that wiped out a generation.