European History World War Ii
The end of the ever-popular World War I gave way to new thinkers and artists that defined the European countries in the 1920s. Also known as the Age of Anxiety, this time period included many new ideas of art such as Dadaism, expressionism, and functionalism. These ideas paved the way for the new phase of art, modernism. Many believed that anxiety infected even the greatest achievement of contemporary Europeans in not only art, but also literature and philosophy. This crisis of the mind, per se, was due to World War I and began changing European art drastically.
The Great War that was expected to be quick and glorious instead soon gave way to years of disillusionment. Modernism soon evolved by making a direct change from the ancient way of just looking at the object and painting it to something much more in depth. Classic art was defined by the people who observed life and painted it for what it was, whereas modern art transformed real life into a very upsetting picture to most artists. These upsetting pictures were made mainly in expressionism, which is described by an artist painting his impression of the objects very brashly and quickly. Another form was surrealism, which was made by artists such as Salvador Dali that dealt with dream-like paintings with distorted objects and things not of this world. Dadaism arose from the activities of the Dadaists, which was expressed due to post-World War I bitterness. Dada deranged meaning through wholesome rebellion by attacking everything normal and making it completely crazy.
Each branch of modernism had famous artists that defined the particular fields within them. Within surrealism, Salvador Dali led and inspired thousands of
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