Neo-Dada is a visual art movement that has similar methods to earlier Dada artwork. It has revived some forms/objects of Dada and has put more emphasis on the importance of the work of art produced rather than focusing on the concept creating the work. Dadaism was rediscovered by a group of art students. It is seen as the foundation of pop art. Neo-Dada uses modern materials, popular imagery and absurdest contrast.
Neo-Dadaism was made popular by the American art critic Barbara Rose in the 1960s.

A man called Marcel Duchamp was part of the Dada movement in 1913 and came up with an idea entitled ‘Readymade’. This came from the concept where you can take any object, remove it from its normal context and put it in a new on. You can change your point of view on it completely. For example you can take any old chair, put it behind some glass in an art exhibition and people will look at it as if it is art and something really amazing.
A lot of people were offended by Duchamp because they thought that he wasn’t taking art seriously and was trying to make a mockery out of it when in fact he was just part of the Dada movement, in which it isn’t supposed to make sense anyway.

I don’t really like this movement as I think it is just completely random and, to me, it doesn’t really hold any meaning. The one thing I would take from this is that some people go crazy over art work that a famous painter has created but it isn’t always the most amazing pieces. I think that often people get carried away and stop thinking for themselves and just go along with what art critics or the rest of the world is saying. This is where I think spectators become passive and just go along with it for the sake of it and are led to believe something is great when in reality it really isn’t that spectacular.