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For some time, its practitioners managed to shock the living daylights out of the world, with installations like Tristan Tzara's rendition of fellow Dadaist Hugo Ball's poem "Gadji beri bimba" (made of complete nonsense words)<ref>This poem was later set to music by [[Talking Heads (band)|Talking Heads]], as "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQc30sbr9M&feature=related I Zimbra]"</ref> while painted to look like a grotesque statue, signing a urinal and putting it in an art installation, and the painting "LHOOQ",<ref>reading the letters with the French pronunciation results in "''elle a chaud au cul''", i.e. "her ass is hot", which is French slang for "she's horny"</ref> the famous picture of the Mona Lisa with a moustache and goatee (now often a [[Stock Parody]]).
Dada eventually died out as a major movement for a few reasons. First and foremost, [[Springtime for Hitler|people started to like it]]—completely the opposite effect that Dada was shooting for. For another, its inherently nihilistic outlook wore on some of its practitioners, and they went in different artistic directions (most famously, into [[Surrealism]], which was often just as confusing to people but with more point). Finally, as bad as World War I ended up, [[It Got Worse]]. If anything, one could look at some of the [[Adolf Hitler|worst parts]] of World War II and see the end result of Dada—utter brutality and disgust for a world that doesn't deserve art. ([[Expospeak|Or in layman's terms]], [[Go Mad
Dada still has a small but thriving following to this day—anything indulging in [[Refuge in Audacity]] will certainly take at least a quick look at it for inspiration, and more than one [[Dead Baby Comedy]] has been noted as falling squarely into the Dada tradition.
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