Marcel Janco, a contemporary of Pablo Picasso, was an influential artist of the Dada period of 1916 to 1920. Dada stood by its many ideas and values. Dada was about deliberate irrationality, anarchy, cynicism and the rejection of the law. Marcel Janco was born on May 24th, 1895 in the town of Bucharest, Rumania and created the Dada movement with fellow artists such as his good friend Tristan Tzara, in 1916. To Janco and his Dada artists, their creation …showed first 75 words of 682 total…

…showed last 75 words of 682 total…that they had an effect on the state of mind of the art community at the time. Through their styles, strange at times, and artistic skills, the artists of the Dada movement achieved what they set out to do. They changed the art community. The new way of living Dada brought about was deconstructing and analysing things and works in a different way, changing and influencing future art styles and movements, and releasing the imagination.