WWI and its Effect on the Arts

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WWI and its Effect on the Arts
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10.6.4

• Discuss the influence of World War I on
  literature, art, and intellectual life in the
  West (e.g., Pablo Picasso, the lost generation
  of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway).

• You will learn how the arts philosophy of the
  1920-1930s were influenced by WWI
• Belief in human reason progress was shattered
• Reflected in work of the period

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Lost Generation

• Attributed to Gertrude Stein
• Popularized by Ernest Hemingway
• The Sun Also Rises

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• The "Lost Generation" defines a sense of moral
  loss or aimlessness apparent in literary figures
  during the 1920s. World War I seemed to have
  destroyed the idea that if you acted virtuously,
  good things would happen. Many good, young men
  went to war and died, or returned home either
  physically or mentally wounded (for most, both),
  and their faith in the moral guideposts that had
  earlier given them hope, were no longer
  valid...they were "Lost."

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Country Meaning
U.S. Generation come of age after WII
Europe Generation of 1914
France Reference to expatriates that settled there
U.K. Those who died in war, particularly upper class casualties disproportion
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WWI Poetry
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On Receiving News of the WarIsaac Rosenberg

• Snow is a strange white word.No ice or frostHas
  asked of bud or birdFor Winter's cost.
• Yet ice and frost and snowFrom earth to
  skyThis Summer land doth know.No man knows why.
• In all men's hearts it is.Some spirit
  oldHath turned with malign kissOur lives to
  mould.
• Red fangs have torn His face.God's blood
  is shed.He mourns from His lone placeHis
  children dead.
• O! ancient crimson curse!Corrode,
  consume.Give back this universeIts pristine
  bloom.

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Poets Corner

• Westminsters Abbey
• 16 Great War poets remembered

• "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The
  Poetry is in the pity.
• Wilfred Owen

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Themes in Early Modern Art

1. Uncertainty/insecurity.
2. Disillusionment.
3. The subconscious.
4. Overt sexuality.
5. Violence savagery.

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Early Modern Art
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• Number 1-29 on a piece of paper
• For each picture, indicate which theme it
  represents
• 1. incertanty/ insecurity
• 2. disillusionment
• 3. subconscious
• 4. Overt sexuality
• 5. Violence savagery
• Write a word or two to describe your reaction

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Edvard Munch The Scream (1893)
Expressionism

• Using bright colors to express a particular
  emotion.

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Franz Marc Animal Destinies (1913)
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Wassily Kandinsky On White II (1923)
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Gustav Klimt Judith I (1901)
Secessionists

• Disrupt the conservative values of Viennese
  society.
• Obsessed with the self.
• Man is a sexual being, leaning toward despair.

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Gustav Klimt Wrogie sily (1901)
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Gustav Klimt The Kiss (1907-8)
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Gustav Klimt Danae (1907-8)
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Henri Matisse Carmelina(1903)
FAUVE

• The use of intense colors in a violent, and
  uncontrolled way.
• Wild Beast.

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Henri Matisse Open Window(1905)
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Georges Braque Violin Candlestick (1910)
CUBISM

• The subject matter is broken down, analyzed, and
  reassembled in abstract form.
• Cezanne ? The artist should treat nature in terms
  of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.

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Georges Braque Woman with a Guitar(1913)
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Georges Braque Still Life LeJeur (1929)
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Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles dAvignon (1907)
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Picasso Studio with Plaster Head (1925)
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Pablo Picasso Woman with aFlower(1932)
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Paul Klee Red White Domes (1914)
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Paul Klee Senecio (1922)
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George Grosz Grey Day(1921)
DaDa

• Ridiculed contemporary culture traditional art
  forms.
• The collapse during WW I of social and moral
  values.
• Nihilistic.

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George Grosz Daum Marries Her Pedantic
AutomatonGeorge in May, 1920, John Heartfield is
Very Glad of It(1919-1920)
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George Grosz The Pillarsof Society(1926)
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Raoul Hausmann ABCD (1924-25)
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Marcel Duchamp Fountain (1917)
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Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase(1912)
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Salvador Dali Soft Construction with Boiled
Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936
Surrealism

• Late 1920s-1940s.
• Came from the nihilistic genre of DaDa.
• Influenced by Feuds theories on psychoanalysis
  and the subconscious.
• Confusing startling images like those in dreams.

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Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory (1931)
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Salvador Dali The Apparition of the Face and
Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938)
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Salvador Dali Geopoliticus Child Watching the
Birth of a New Man (1943)
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Walter Gropius Bauhaus Building (1928)
Bauhaus

• A utopian quality.
• Based on the idealsof simplified formsand
  unadornedfunctionalism.
• The belief that the machine economy could deliver
  elegantly designed items for the masses.
• Used techniques materials employed especially
  in industrial fabrication manufacture ? steel,
  concrete, chrome, glass.

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Walter Gropius Lincoln, MA house (1938)
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• More art after WWI
• 1914-18 war - Art of the First World War - List
  of painters

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