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Ch. 21: Art Between the World Wars. By: Miranda Kilman 2 nd hr. Humanities. WWI: New vision of world. Fernand Leger – Painting accessible to the viewer. - Precise, neat parts all fit in appointed place. (primary Colors) - “The City” - Unique response to war, not cynicism.
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Ch. 21:Art Between the World Wars By: Miranda Kilman 2nd hr. Humanities
WWI: New vision of world • Fernand Leger – Painting accessible to the viewer. • - Precise, neat parts all fit in appointed place. (primary Colors) • - “The City” • - Unique response to war, not cynicism
Dada & Photomontage Dada: Movement. - Arts task: destruction of cultural heritage of the “sick Civilization”. - Reaction to rising death toll and destruction of war. -Hannah hoch
Photomontage: gathering words/images from newspapers and magazines and arranging them in symbolic rather than representational groups. -More politically oriented, aware of influence of mass media in daily life. -Marcel Duchamp: Reproduction of Mona Lisa -Prankster attitude
Russian Rev. of Oct. 1917 • Experimental art in place of Czar’s taste by Bolshevik leadership. • - Revolutionary party to promote Avantgarde. • Some artists were hired and paid by the Gov’t to create art for the future. • Suprematism: by Kazimir Malevich, a universal language of geometric shapes.
Surrealism • The Surrealist manifesto of 1924 said that art was based on “pure psychic automatism by means of which one sets out to express, in any manner, the real functioning of thought without any control by reason or any moral preoccupation” • Andre Breton • Phobias, delusions, abnormal psycology