Art has its roots, one could say, when civilization was born. With each civilization and respective periods of the past, humans have formed a diverse and unique society, a group of people with their own individual characteristics, cultures and philosophies within which all kinds of different ideas, thoughts and opinions are always provided. for challenge and assessment. These distinct aspects of a culture and/or time period can be recorded by people in various forms of expression that we all call art. Directly from where the culture originated, the events and/or emotions of that period were reflected or directly recorded in the arrangement of images, that is, paintings from the past that inform us about experiences and events of people during past historical periods. Ultimately, history is the story of development and how we evolved as humans together in a society. History can be expressed and reflected in different types of music, sculptures and paintings. There are several different periods of art, each of which has contributed to and reflected the state of a society. Art has generally been used by historians as one of the vehicles of history to illustrate and illuminate it, as they are able to recognize that certain types of art can help them identify and explain the nature of societies and periods of history. Art and society clashed, each different type giving rise to new arts and new societies for many generations to come. The ideas provoked reactions from citizens and therefore gave rise to several different types of influences on the context, heredity and environment of a period. These influences are then translated into a new idea, which then triggers the circle to repeat it...... middle of paper ......egan At the end of the brutal and bloody First World War, the Dadaists were shaped by the pain and destruction wrought by war, the political manipulation of the masses through the use of propaganda and the polarization of resources in the name of false ideologies. Dadaist painter Marcel Duchamp's famous work, Fontaine, which depicts a porcelain urinal, was a parody of conventional art and typified the previously discussed sentiments of the Dada era. The Dadaists wanted to prove the uselessness of war for the needs of society and reveal to the public a painful truth: the ordinary citizen was trapped in the agony of society. Overall, art expresses the themes and issues of the time in which it was produced by depicting the good or bad elements of the time, the progress of society, and the changing feelings towards a certain aspect of world.