The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DADA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result DADA
- A father’s taken up artistic movement
- Father of unconventional art form
- American originally backing Pop Art concept
- Pop's flipping repetitive nowadays!
- Commercial retrospective repeatedly displaying nihilistic art
- Duchamp’s art, denying aesthetics primarily?
- Father of art movement
- Pop art movement
- Movement lawyer repeated
- Article in total backed art style
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What does DADA mean?
DADA noun- Father, dad.
- (Southeast Asia) Illegal drugs.
- A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.