Posted on 07/03/2018 4:21:36 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Exploring the impact of World War One on British, German and French art
Marking the 100 years since the end of World War One, Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One looks at how artists responded to the physical and psychological scars left on Europe.
Art was used in many ways in the tumultuous period after the end of the war, from documenting its destructive impact, to the building of public memorials and as a social critique.
This fascinating and moving exhibition shows how artists reacted to memories of war in many ways. George Grosz and Otto Dix exposed the unequal treatment of disabled veterans in post-war society, Hannah Höch and André Masson were instrumental in the birth of new art forms dada and surrealism, Pablo Picasso and Winifred Knights returned to tradition and classicism, whilst others including Fernand Léger and C.R.W Nevinson produced visions of the city of the future as society began to rebuild itself.
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That would be completely fascinating, to me.
A disaster for mankind. A stupid war that America was stupid to get involved in.
Fernand Léger is one of about 5 artists who have a museum dedicated to him in France. It’s in Biot, a neat town about 30 km west of Nice that also is known for its glassblowers. Worth visiting to see both the museum and the glassblowing shops.
I concur.
The British financed the entirety of the Allied war debt on Wall Street. American bankers had a financial stake in an Allied victory. And so they made sure American blood repaid their investment.
Things haven’t changed that much .
Woodrow Wilson suckered the American voters by promising to keep us out of WWI.
Britain should have never gotten into it neither, so what if France fell to Germany, Germany still would have been no threat to the British Empire.
I don’t see how war cannot impact painters who experience it.
Francisco Goya is an example.
Well there was the thing about the Germans building a navy they didn’t need.
Actually, Germany could have guaranteed that Britain didn’t enter the war, but that would have meant no Schlieffen Plan. For Germany, the whole point of triggering the war was to prevent Russia from dominating Europe (which but for the United States they would have done). Attacking France was a rather strange way of accomplishing that.
But then in the next war Hitler justified invading the USSR as the best means of defeating Britain. The Germans haven’t had a sound sense of strategy since Wilhelm II sacked Bismarck.
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