3 Tristan Tzara Quotes

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"Tristan Tzara" was a French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist of Romanian Jewish descent. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement. Under the influence of Adrian Maniu, the adolescent Tzara became interested in Symbolism (arts)/Symbolism and co-founded the magazine Simbolul with Ion Vinea (with whom he also wrote Experimental literature/experimental poetry) and painter Marcel Janco. During World War I, after briefly collaborating on Vinea's Chemarea, he joined Janco in Switzerland. There, Tzara's shows at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich)/Cabaret Voltaire and Zünfte of Zürich/Zunfthaus zur Waag, as well as his poetry and art manifestos, became a main feature of early Dadaism. His work represented Dada's Nihilism/nihilistic side, in contrast with the more moderate approach favored by Hugo Ball.