Tzara (Tristan Tzara)

Tristan Tzara was a Romanian-French poet and the central figure of the Dada movement, an early 20th-century art movement that challenged traditional aesthetics and conventions. Dada artists used absurdity, randomness, and anti-establishment ideas to provoke thought and criticize societal norms, especially in response to World War I. Tzara’s innovative poetry often employed collage, free verse, and nonsensical language to break away from traditional forms. His work and ideas helped inspire modern art and literature, emphasizing spontaneity, unreliability of meaning, and the questioning of authority and cultural values.