Q: Utilizing class notes and perhaps resources of your own, write a 1,000-2,000 work dealing with each of the following artists in the period directly following World War 1 [1918-]:.
German art movement of the 1920s began after the end of WWI. There where many artists in this period but the main chief painters of the movement were George Grosz and Otto Dix. They created styles of sharp realism and protest that mirrored the disillusionment following World War I. New objectivity retained the intense emotionality of earlier movements in German art, but it left the symbolism of expressionism for true pleasant explanation. Also Max Beckmann produced works in a related, channel during this time period.
Otto Dix born in 1891 and died in 1969, was an artist whose work defined the nature of New Objectivity clearly. After WWI Dix developed left wing views and his paintings and drawings became increasingly political. Like other German artists such as John Heartfield and George Grosz, Dix was angry about the way that the wounded and crippled ex-soldiers were treated in Germany which was shown in many of his pieces. His war paintings were appalling descriptions of indescribable horrors. Dix worked for six years on what is considered to be his two great masterpieces,Metropolis? painted in 1928 andTrench Warfare? painted in 1932. In the left-hand panel ofMetropolis?, Dix shows himself as a war cripple entering Berlin and being greeted by a row of beckoning prostitutes. Where as inTrench Warfare? as it also is a painting on three panels side by side it deals more directly with the First World War. The left-handed panel shows German soldiers marching off to war, the central panel is a scene of destroyed houses and mangled bodies, and the right-hand panel side panel shows soldiers struggling home from the war. As a young man he didn't at all notice that he was badly effected by the war until 4 years following to even ten years he kept on having dreams in which he had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages where he could hardly get through which brought back horrible memories.
