Disillusionment's Impact on Post-WWI Art Movements
Explore how disillusionment stemming from experiences in WWI led to profound shifts in art movements like the Lost Generation and Dada. Discover the reasons behind disillusionment, from PTSD to loss of faith, and its lasting influence on artists post-WWI.
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1. Define Disillusionment. 2. Identify reasons for disillusionment. 3. Explain how disillusionment influenced art movements after WWI (Lost Generation, Dada, etc.)
To lose your belief in idealism, morality, love, or other such forces. Hopelessness. Think: What illusions would soldiers have held before entering the fighting? How could the fighting of WWI destroy these illusions ?
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Shell Shock Loss of faith in leaders Witnessing deaths that brought no benefit: did anyone really win ? Returning home, where nobody understands the experience (censorship)
British Poet Volunteer Soldier: Honor and patriotism Experienced horrors: Shell Shock Wrote poems all through the war Died in 1918 just before armistice
Latin: How sweet and glorious it is to fight and die for your country.
Artists who were young people during WWI Many Lived in France Wrote/made art about disillusionment
-People who became disillusioned with society due to WWI
Every man becomes civilized between the ages of 18 and 23. If he does not go through a civilizing experience at that time of his life, he will not become a civilized man. The men who went to war at 18 missed the civilizing All you young people who served in the war are a lost generation. You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death. -- Gertrude Stein on the American writers living in Paris after World War I
Cubism popularized: looks like distorted versions of reality
Dada Movement: revolt against WWI with humor, absurd subject matter
Spare, simple, harsh literature: Earnest Hemingway Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~E. Hemingway
Can you: 1. Define Disillusionment? 2. Use it in a sentence? context of sentence demonstrates understanding 3. Come up with 3 reasons why WWI would cause disillusionment?
