The Influence of World War I on the Arts

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1. The Influence of World War I
2. Guggenheim Museum: NYOP. Saturdays 5:45-7:45 pm Museum of Modern Art: Free. Fridays 4-8 pm The Metropolitan Museum of Art: NYOP all the time.
9. created art movements with the aim of rebuilding post war society inspired dystopian novels based partly on new war propaganda methods popularized jazz music and helped it develop
10. Gavrilo Princip Archduke Franz Ferdinand
12. // Trench warfare
13. Tanks //
14. // Aircraft
15. Submarines //
16. // Poison Gas
17. Flamethrowers //
18. DADA! DADA!
22. Reason is false Reason caused the War Down with reason! - MoMA, “Dadaism”
23. Make irrational art Irrational = Without using reason Reason = Rational thinking
29. it‘s pronounced “duh style” in Dutch. Really.
30. abstract straight lines and right angles primary colours: blue, red, and yellow non-colours: black, white, and grey
38. unbalance between the individual and the uniform/universal caused the war - Piet Mondrian, “Neo-Plasticism: The General Principle of Plastic Equivalence, 1920”
39. the war was destroying the old world and its emphasis on individuality the new world came with new art - Theo van Doesburg, “Manifest I of De Stijl, 1918”
40. the new art brings balance to the world - Piet Mondrian, “Neo-Plasticism: The General Principle of Plastic Equivalence, 1920”
44. Armchair, 1922, Marcel Breuer Stacking Tables, 1926, Josef Albers
45. Small Ship-Building Set, 1923, Alma Siedhoff-Buscher
46. , 1923, Joost Schmidt Cover of the Bauhaus Exhibition Catalogue, 1923, Herbert Bayer and
47. Black Relationship, 1924, Wassily Kandinsky
48. Yellow Circle, 1921, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
49. The Sublime Side, 1923, Paul Klee
50. The newly-completed Bauhaus school building in 1926. Designed by Walter Gropius.
59. YEVGENY ZAMYATIN’S
60. [ Unhappy society ] [ Awful government ] [ Usually repressive and totalitarian ]
61. [ The Soviet Union and its ideologies ] [ Mussolini and fascism ] -Gleb Struve, “We and Zamyatin”, 1946 [ The Russian Constructivists ]
62. “Today, poetry is no longer the idle, impudent whistling of a nightingale; poetry is civic service, poetry is useful.” - Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
63. YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
64. “We reject utilitarianism. Art […] has no goal or meaning, it exists because it must exist […]” - Lev Lunts, “The Serapion Brothers’ Manifesto”, 1922
65. ALDOUS HUXLEY’S
66. N TI N L W R IMS C MMITTEE EST. 1917 Neil Oliver, historian, “Was WWI Propaganda the Birth of Spin?”
67. 1. VILLIFY THE ENEMY
68. 2. MAKE IT ABOUT THEIR KIDS
69. 3. APPEAL TO GROUP MENTALITY
70. 4. GET THE APPROVAL OF CELEBRITIES
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78. resulted in dada whose opposite is de stijl which shared the dream of making an orderly society with bauhaus who made functional art like russian constructivism except that the constructivist version of functional art was mostly propaganda that yevgeny zamyatin ridiculed in we likewise, brave new world was also partly inspired by propaganda developments while other facets of brave new world were inspired by the jazz age and wwi indirectly brought about the jazz age