MPC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sandpainting, Impasto, Rothko Chapel
17 May 2016
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After wwii, the european artistic power crumble, and the center of artistic culture shifts to the us. Nazi exhibition of bad" art, featuring modern art, which they saw as a decay of art. Cover art: otto freundlich: artist was transported to a concentration camp. Anti-aesthetic hanging of work, anti-classicist, to illustrate the idea that it promoted the decay of society. Ironically, the works were given more exposure than they ever could have without the show. Artists were prevented from painting and exhibiting their work. Many were destroyed, but some were stored away or sold internationally (also exchanged for classical works) The end of the auction came with the burning of thousands of paintings in a courtyard. Hitler saw himself as an artist (of a classical nature) throughout his life; he was driven to remake the world by his aesthetic ideal.
