War Modernism: The German Artist During World War I

The piece of art that the paper will analyze is "Sleeping Girl." Roy Lichtenstein painted "Sleeping Girl" in 1964, as part of his work in pop art & pop culture. Another artist who painted in the style of pop art was Andy Warhol, just to add context with whom Lichtenstein kept artistic company. "Sleeping Girl" is a seminal work in a series of paintings in comic book style. Comic book culture saw a huge surge after WWII and so did pop art. These artistic forms expressed a desire to escape from the horrors and great changes around the world after the war. Artists such as Lichtenstein tapped into these desires producing mash-ups of popular art forms to express an even more layered message. "Sleeping Girl" is directly influenced by DC Comics, as it is a rendition of an image found in Girls' Romances, #105. It was a very bold statement in the 1960s and in the 21st century, to bring a popular culture form into the realm of high art. This painting, while one in a series with similar aesthetics, "Sleeping Girl" is additionally a painting with a similar theme across Lichtenstein's entire body of work the idea of the sleeping female muse.

Both Vonnegut and Heller approach their service during World War Two as intentionally just and good but corrupted and modified by human nature. Their time is not spent protesting the cause of the war, but the people in charge of it. Both show very human characters too surreal to be fictional, inspired by the authors’ personal experiences and interactions, for better and for worse. Most importantly, both express the futility of remaining the same person after experiencing combat, doing little to censor the brutality of the war. Therefore, Heller and Vonnegut qualify under three of the five themes; humanization, youth fighting their elder’s wars, and the trauma of experiencing combat.

Art during the Cold War represented and challenged the political and social ideas of the time.

Humanity’s capacity for all types of violence – wanton, revolutionary, productive, vengeful, et cetera – has been a focus of artists during every epoch of human history. Francisco Goya’s The Mob (part of his series The Disasters of War) and Käthe Kollwitz’s Uprising, both prints, deal with human violence in the context of reaction to adversity. Goya’s work shows the effects of Napoleon’s oppressive rule over the people of Spain in the early nineteenth century, while Kollwitz’s art deals with the difficulties endured by German peasants near the dawn of the twentieth century. Both artists depict some sort of violence in response to oppression and hardship, but the ways in which they go about this are different according to the response they wish

Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), one of the most regarded German artists of the twentieth century (Wikipedia, 2014.), was a realist artist who created artworks to represent the hardships and sorrows in life. Her most well-known work, Woman with Dead Child, created in 1903, is a soft etching that shows the expressive human form of a mother and her dead child. This highly emotional artwork shows the deep grief of the woman expressed towards her dead child and her want to keep holding on.

Through its four year course, World War I ravaged all of Europe, leaving no one unaffected by its violent nature. Those who either opposed or supported the war made sure to vocalize their thoughts through literature or speech. In the same vein, Artists compiled their thoughts on the war through a different medium—art. In this essay, I will analyze the differing views between Ernst Jünger’s Storm of Steel to both pre and post-WWI artists. As the rise and fall of World War I swept through Europe, various artistic movements strove to show how warfare changed the cultural values of a society, ultimately reflecting the larger view individuals had towards this devastating

It is not about the history, but the context and symbolism behind the breathtaking canvas of Guernica. This masterpiece and iconic painting was Picasso’s most known but least understood work of art. Because the theme of this multifarious artwork is mainly focused around death, Guernica has many cleverly hidden messages and meanings through the surface imagery. Picasso was aware that sideways or inverted imagery could impact an influential subconscious effect on its viewers (Novacaster). Four years of research led to some unbelievable discoveries behind the symbolism of the drawings in Guernica. Throughout this paper I will explain the symbolism behind the hidden images and how this mural impacts me on a personal and emotional level.

Europe faced countless challenges during the immediate aftermath of World War II (WWII). Firstly, this essay will examine the most important negative consequences confronted by Europe after WWII, including, the effects the war had on the European economy and political conditions. In this regard, it will look specifically at the Soviet Union, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom. Secondly, the essay will review the numerous displaced populations WWII left behind as well as the expulsions of several Germans from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Lastly, this essay will observe the destruction and loss of cultural heritage Europe encountered following WWII.

Another of these movements that quickly followed was Futurism this started in 1909 in Italy. Futurists aspired for a new world order and they hoped to achieve this through the dismantling of the status quo. Their aims were the destruction of museums and libraries and the glorification of machinery, speed and violence they celebrated and promoted the new age of industry and supported the war, hoping this would help to carve the pathway to the new world they craved ’we wish to glorify war, the only hygiene of the world.’ Understandably due to their beliefs many of the artists and people involved with this group signed up quickly for the war their work aimed to evoke a range of feelings and sensation not simply what the eye could see. Their work aimed to bring to mind the heat, violence and colour of the modern world, it was the visual realisation of dynamism, of speed and ferocity represented by the vivid colours and the integration of objects and figures with their backgrounds. Understandably it was easy to see why the artists found appeal in the war and on the front lines the way they saw the world was laid out in perfect vibrant and brutal clarity for everyone to see. The movement took it’s inspiration from Cubism and would later

A pioneer of artistic influence in American culture, Frederick Childe Hassam led the revolution of art in the World War I era. In the midst of a world crisis, Hassam became a trailblazer of his own technique; he promoted a new form of Impressionism that not only reinforced the subtlety and free-flow style of French Impressionism, but also reinforced the vivacity and tenacity that he wanted to express. Amalgamating the techniques of French Impressionism with the nationalistic values of the American art and culture, Hassam promulgated what was eventually known as American Impressionism. However, throughout this “assembly process”, Hassam never forgot his goal: to vividly capture the patriotism that the American, British, and French people all shared in a time of upheaval, and use it to unite them. He displayed the newfound and unlikely alliance between the Allied powers through his art, and in doing so, progressively strengthened the alliance between France, Great Britain, and the United States.

The war and revolution, theme, painting and its backstory did stir up plenty of thoughts and feelings. Obviously, war and revolution is relevant to our polarized nation and chaotic world stage, for several bi-partisan decades escalating. I suppose it’s wise to remain alert on this topic. Evidently, continuous throughout human history, and current. Just because it’s at present it isn’t on your backyard or doorstep doesn’t mean it can’t be—. Let art be reflective.

The two world wars in the history have been inextricably linked to Germany's ambitions. These wars not only caused an indelible trauma in the whole world but also left deep bitterness and lessons for the German people. At that time, however, there was a small group of the German artist upstream, strongly against the government's evil deeds, expressed their condemnation and discontent for the war through their artworks, such as Max Beckmann and Otto Dix. This article will use Max Beckmann’s “The Large Operation” and Otto Dix’s “Der Krieg (The War)” as examples, to specifically discuss how these two artists changed their drawing style in a more intense way in order to create an impressed depiction of the bloodshed and cruelty of the war for the viewers.

American Modernism:Graphic Design 1920 - 1960 was written by Roger R. Remington Professor of Design at Rochester Institute of Technology. In his book he discusses the American art Modernist movement during the period between World War I and World War II. He discuss how the movement was inspired by historical event but also analyses the elements of Modernism as an art form. Most importantly how these elements reflect common philosophies of the time. Art is used “to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade and perhaps

War is a human experience that affects people greatly. To some people, war is a source of pride, but to many it is a horrible, violent, and life changing experience. When war comes up in any conversation, it evokes negative feelings in a person like pain, hurt, and even sadness. Many individuals have been direct victims of war and some are indirectly affected but still influenced, nonetheless. War continues to be a pervasive subject and an inspiration for many artists to draw upon. Many artists use art to express their feelings about war and get their perception of it out to the public. A lot of these individuals use art to increase awareness in people and to let them understand the negative impacts of war. One such person is a woman named Edith Birkin, who is not only a survivor of the Holocaust, but is also an artist who drew images of the situation and victims that were caught up in this horrific event. Through her artworks, Birkin is able to vividly portray her experiences and put on to canvas what happened to the Jews during the Second World War. Her paintings allow individuals to see the conditions during the war that left many people in pain and scarred for the remainder of their life.

Following World War I, people who had previously romanticized the ideas of war and perspectives on life were dismayed by the devastating amount of pain and loss that they experienced. Due to the excruciating pains of war, people across the world began to lose faith in humanity, religion and began to change their perspectives on life itself. The Great War caused many people to feel pessimistic towards life and questioning its ultimate purpose. From this overflow of emotion sprang a new form of thinking and expression that is known today as modernism. Modernism is rooted in people’s beliefs that their existent day to day lives were not fitting for the new emerging social, political, and economic changes that were occuring in the world. The