dadaist

[dah-dah-ist]

adjective

1. characterized by the principles or style of dada.

noun

1. a practitioner of dada in art, music, or literature.

Example Sentences

His first photo exhibition was from Man Ray, the acclaimed surrealist and Dadaist who moved easily across a variety of mediums.

From Los Angeles Times

Her first work, “Cutting Out the New York Times,” is a series of 26 Dadaist poems formed from printed headlines that ran in the paper in 1977.

From Los Angeles Times

Among those who submitted works but won nothing: the British poet and novelist Robert Graves in 1924, the Dadaist George Grosz, in 1928, and Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school of architecture, in 1932.

From New York Times

Rocha, who died in 1981, was 25 when he made the movie, and later told a French interviewer that “the cultural background of a young Brazilian is incoherent” and that at the time, he had simultaneously been “a surrealist, a futurist, a Dadaist and a Marxist.”

From New York Times

It’s the nature of creating a delirious, Dadaist riff on “The Parent Trap” — only with two obviously dissimilar gay men as long-lost identical twins and Bowen Yang playing God — that you can never be sure it’s really happening.

From Seattle Times