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In this essay I will explain the differences and similarities between the two art and literary movements Dada and Surrealism. To help show you the differences between these two movements I will use one example of each movement, as a Dada example I will use Marcel Duchamp and his work ‘The Fountain’ and for Surrealism, Salvador Dali and his painting ‘The Persistence Of Memory’. Dada was a movement around the time of the First World War, it started around 1915 and ended at about 1922, Surrealism followed Dada and was practised from around 1924 right through to about 1939. Dadaism was very much like a protest against art, it was an anti-art, Dadaists felt that people no longer deserved the beautiful art that they had become accustomed to because of all of the killing in the war, they felt that people had lost their values. So what Dadaists tried to do was make art ugly. In a time of industrial revolution Dadaists decided to degrade their materials using second hand, second rate objects found