New York Art
New York's Post WWII Art Scene
After World War II, so many parts of Europe were in ruin. Economies were shattered, new governments worked to gain mandates for their authority and the people of Europe's countless and once rich cultural centers struggled to establish new identities. And following more than a decade of fascism, genocide and territorial war, many of the intellectually and culturally elite talents had departed the content for a context more hospitable to freedom and creativity. Relative to what they found in the spread of fascism, the United States would prove itself not just as the newly dominant military and commercial power in the world but also art center of the world. With devastation persistent throughout the great cities of Europe, New York emerged as the capital of the modern art world and so many of the innovations that would extend there from in the ensuing decades.
In many ways, what began to occur in New York in the years immediately and eventually following the war represented a continuity from the evolution taking place in Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That is, a focus on the abstract processes of the psyche, of the mind, of emotion and of the human condition would enter into this mode of visual expression. From Picasso's cubism to Duchamp's dadism to Dali's surrealism, the focus of European art before and during the war had largely been to find ways of visually expressing internal processes. This exact notion found flight in the works of those artists who made New York their home following the war, but in a mode that was inherently more American in its material abstractions. And on this point, artists such as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock began to move abstract expressionism into a place of dominance. The Dayton Art Institute characterizes the work of Rothko, Pollock and their colleagues as Abstract Expressionism and the output of...
Artists Since 1945 What are the influences and events that caused Abstract Expressionism to develop? What are the two modes of Abstract Expressionism? Compare and contrast these two modes and specially discuss the work of two artists from each mode. Share why you chose these four artist. During and after World War II, artistic expression was destroyed in Europe. This is because, the onslaught of the Nazis created an environment of persecution.
War and Occupation: The Effects of the U.S. Occupation on Japan's Government and Politics The recent change in the American foreign policy direction which has seen the replacement of its traditional anti-colonialist tilt by the neo-conservative belief of guided nation building evokes a lot of interest in the history of United State's occupation of post world war II Japan. Although each such occupation is different -- the political, social and cultural
Art History: Post War The global impact of the Second World War II on the society, politics, culture and technology was reflected how art produced after 1945 was changing in appearance and feeling. The rapid significant changes were a reflection of the intense and sometimes radical responses made by artists. Artists' works during this period responded to or questioned the nature personal and national identity, gender/race issues, the emergence and
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European Federalism: Historical Analysis Fascism is considered to be a political belief and concept, which is based on the principle that social, economic and cultural and traditional beliefs of a country must be used in order to increase nationalism. In Europe, fascist movements had emerged in twentieth century. The goal of these fascist movements was to promote fundamentalist and fanatic beliefs in order to deal with the social and political turmoil
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