Tristan Tzara (1896 – 25 Dec 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist, and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer, and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement.His work represented Dada's nihilistic side, in contrast with the more moderate approach favored by Hugo Ball. His art defined his Dadaist plays The Gas Heart (1921) and Handkerchief of Clouds (1924). A forerunner of automatist techniques, Tzara eventually aligned himself with Breton's Surrealism, and under its influence wrote his celebrated utopian poem The Approximate Man. Tristan Tzara was an influential author and performer, whose contribution is credited with having created a connection from Cubism and Futurism to the Beat Generation, Situationism and various currents in rock music. The friend and collaborator of many modernist figures Less