Dada. It’s like the ultimate paradox.

The movement’s founders were very cynical of the war and society in general. Dissatisfied with humanity, they set out to make anti-art. Dada was intended to lack any meaning whatsoever, which many people consider the point of art.  These anti-artists despised the order of normal art and opted for irrationality instead. It was nonsensical, reflecting what they perceived as the nature of the world around them.

However, this action was in itself a commentary. So oddly, with their art anti-art, Dadaists actually contradicted themselves by creating the very thing they were so determined to avoid: art, with a message.