The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DADA , but the solution may also be DADA Down which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Early 20th-century art movement crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
DADA | 33 % | 4 |
PURISM | 33 % | 6 |
DADA Down | 33 % | 39 |
Why may DADA-DOWN be the right solution?
The answer "DADA" is the right solution because it refers to an early 20th-century art movement known for its unconventional and anti-establishment approach. It emerged as a response to the horrors of World War I and sought to challenge traditional artistic norms.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Early 20th-century art movement
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Crossword Answer definitions
DADA noun- Father, dad.
- (Southeast Asia) Illegal drugs.
- A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DADA
- Absurd art
- Artistic movement
- Nonsensical art
- Arp's art
- Arp's school
- Literary movement
- Tzara's art cult
- Art movement opposed to rationalism
- Artistic movement focused on shocking the bourgeoisie
- Nursery sound
More clues leading to the result PURISM
- Pedant's thinking
- Chaste pursuit
- Insistence on chasteness
- Insistence on precise standards
- Strict use of language, etc.
- Stickler's creed
- Aversion to slang, say
- Stickler's belief
- Rigid nicety in use of words.
- Meticulosity.