Romanian avant-garde poet, critic, and theorist Tristan Tzara is best known as a founder and central figure of the Dada movement. His writings and manifestos, such as the Dada Manifesto (1918), helped define Dada’s anarchic rejection of traditional aesthetics and bourgeois culture. In the 1920s, Tzara moved to Paris where he became associated with the Surrealists and became an influential force within the movement. Tzara’s work often challenged conventional forms through experimental poetry, collage, and performance, emphasizing spontaneity, absurdity, and provocation. His legacy endures as a revolutionary figure in 20th-century art and literature, shaping modernist and postmodernist thought. Today, Tzara’s work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, among others.