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Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Pronunciation: [d̪ʱuɳɖiɾaːd͡ʒ pʰaːɭke]), popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke (30 April 1870 – 16 February 1944), was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as "the Father of Indian cinema ". [ 1 ] His debut film, Raja Harishchandra, was the first Indian movie released in 1913, and is now known as ...
Hugo Ball (German: [bal]; 22 February 1886 – 14 September 1927) was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in 1916. Among other accomplishments, he was a pioneer in the development of sound poetry.
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. [1] A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe. [1] He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the ...
Arp was born Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp to a French mother and a German father in Strasbourg during the period between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, when the city and surrounding region was under control of the German Empire. Following the return of Alsace to France at the end of World War I, French law required Arp to adopt a French name, and he legally became Jean Arp, although he ...
DaDa. (1983) Constrictor. (1986) Singles from DaDa. "I Love America". Released: November 18, 1983 (UK)[5] DaDa is the eighth solo studio album by American rock singer Alice Cooper, released in September 1983, by Warner Bros. Records. DaDa would be Cooper's final studio album until his sober re-emergence in 1986 with the album Constrictor.
Hans Johannes Siegfried Richter (/ ˈrɪktər /; German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; 6 April 1888 – 1 February 1976) was a German Dada painter, graphic artist, avant-garde film producer, and art historian. In 1965 he authored the book Dadaism about the history of the Dada movement. [1][2] He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland. [3] From Expressionism ...
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (UK: / ˈdjuːʃɒ̃ /, US: / djuːˈʃɒ̃, djuːˈʃɑːmp /; [1] French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. [2][3][4] He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped ...
Idi Amin Dada Oumee (/ ˈiːdiɑːˈmiːn, ˈɪdi -/ ⓘ, UK also /- æˈmiːn /; 30 May 1928 – 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979.