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The madness of World War I provoked artists to create Dada, which started in neutral Switzerland and quickly spread across Europe. Their “art” was to mock the prevailing culture, including mainstream art, with demonstrations, “actions,” and mock-art. The Dadaists assumed that rational thinking had caused the war; therefore, the antidote to war must be irrational thinking.