Moreover, millennials must bear the growing frequency of police brutality and school shootings as well as the daunting reality of exponentially rising college tuition costs. In addition to the 2016 election, disenfranchised American millennials have lived through a period of time in which their country has been involved in a long, ethically debatable war in the Middle East, an economic recession in 2008 caused by elite who were not properly reprimanded and an increasing, drastically unequal distribution of wealth. Ridiculous headlines like this highlight the senselessness of politics and the modern world. In this day and age, news headlines in the mainstream news cycle within the last year include “Trump’s Behavior Similar to Male Chimpanzee, Says Jane Goodall” from Huffington Post “Is Ted Cruz the Zodiac Killer? Maybe, Say 38 Percent of Florida Voters” from the Rolling Stone “Harambe: Stop making memes of our dead gorilla, Cincinnati Zoo pleads” from The Independent and “Hillary Clinton Carries Ninja Squirrel Hot Sauce Everywhere” from Time Magazine. Consequently, artists created a sort of anti-art that rejected the conventions that brought about the atrocity in the first place. The senselessness of Dada art reflected the senselessness of the world circa WWI, in which conventional logic led to the senselessness of a world war.
Dada art made little sense and, unlike previous art movements, did not necessarily have an aesthetic appeal. Though on the surface memes seem like lighthearted, nonsensical fun, to some extent they can actually be classified as a form of neo-Dadaism.ĭadaism is an art movement that emerged in Europe in reaction to World War I in the late 1910s. Finally, millennials have something to contribute to humanity’s rich history of art: meme culture. Thanks to the rise of social media and millennials’ disenchantment with society, a new offshoot of contemporary art has been born.
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