How Dada Ended

Dada burned out almost as fast as it ignited. By the early 1920s the constant provocation had nowhere left to go — you can only shock an audience for so long before shock becomes the new convention.

The Paris group fractured into feuds, and many of its members regrouped under André Breton to form Surrealism. Dada didn't fade quietly; it dissolved on purpose, treating its own collapse as the final, fitting work of an anti-art movement.