Dada originated during a period when literary and artistic movements such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Futurism were based primarily in France, Italy, and Germany.
The Dadaists saw such concepts as a result of bourgeois society, which was so indifferent that it would sooner wage war against itself than confront the established systems.
Raoul Hausmann, who was instrumental in establishing Dada in Berlin, wrote the manifesto Synthetic Cino of Painting (1918), in which he denounced Expressionism and the art critics who supported it.
Dadaism art in the Netherlands was founded mostly by Theo van Doesburg, who is best known for pioneering the De Stijl movement and the journal that bore the same name.
By 1924, Dada had merged with Surrealism in Paris, and artists had moved on to other concepts and trends such as Social Realism, Surrealism, and other kinds of modernism.
Untitled (Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance) (1917) by Hans ArpThe Spirit of our Time (1920) by Raoul HausmannChinese Nightingale (1920) by Max ErnstMerzpicture 46A. The Skittle Picture (1921) by Kurt SchwittersRayograph (1922) by Man Ray