Common Ground: Comparisons over Time (how chosen, sim/diff)

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Common Ground: Comparisons

over Time (how chosen, sim/diff)

1. Compare Hitler to Bismarck

2. Compare Mussolini to Napoleon

3. Compare the Bolsheviks to the Czarists

4. Compare Stalin to ONE: Mussolini, Hitler, Franco

5. Compare socialist and fascist responses to capitalism

6. Compare French Revolutionary social policy with Russian Revolutionary social policy

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Cultural Themes, after WWI

• Absurdity of life (Anti-Enlightenment)

• Unconscious motivations

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Cubism

• Cubism (1907-1914 c.) began as a reaction against

Impressionism.

• invoke an emotional response-not the same as Romantic

painters

• Proportion is rejected and objects are viewed as

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Guernica

1937 by Pablo

Picasso

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Guernica

1937 by Pablo

Picasso

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Dada

• Dada (c.1916-1922) was a response to the insanity of life and of the horror of WWI.

• It preached non-sense and anti-art. The meaning of the word itself is open to interpretation-yes, yes in Russian or a rocking horse in French.

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L.Q.O.O.Q.

Mona Lisa

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Expressionism

• art should be the expression of feelings and emotions.

• influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud, the horror of World War I and the

economic collapse that followed the war.

• simplified, cartoon-like

figures, intense, bold, bright and unnatural colors.

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Berlin Street

Scene

(1930)

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Surrealism

• based on the importance of dreams and the undirected play of thought (Freud).

• revolt against the intellectual concerns of Cubism and the formalist art of Abstraction. • an unreal or mix of the real

and unreal objects.

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Dream Caused by the Flight of a

Bumble bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before

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National

Socialist

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•Rejection of “degenerate art”

•Glorification of heroic,

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Socialist Realism

• Supposed

_{to be}

realistic

view…

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 _{Comparative Questions over}

Time:

 Compare the goals of artistic

movements in the late 1800s with those of the 1920s.

 Compare the ways in which

absolutist monarchs used art with the ways in which

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Examples from other times?

 _{Nationalism vs. National Self-Determination}  _{Global economic networks}

 _Consumerism

 _{Industrializations}

 _{Responses to capitalism}

 _{Political responses to social inequality, rights of}

ind.

 _{Artistic critiques of society, of “objectivity”}  _{Feminism and/or role of family}