Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)

1920

Dada Head by Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Artwork · Women Artists

Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Dada Head (1920), one of the turned and painted wooden heads that are now treated as icons of Zurich Dada.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Dada Head (1920), one of the turned and painted wooden heads that are now treated as icons of Zurich Dada. Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Dada Head, 1920, painted wood with glass beads on wire. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photograph by Hiart, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons.

The pioneering abstract artist’s sculptures of abstract heads are now considered icons of the Dada movement, a vital predecessor to generative art.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

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