AHIS10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chinese Folk Art, Emil Nolde, Rudolf Belling
28 Aug 2018
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Very strong idea of what is art a(cid:374)d what is(cid:374)(cid:859)t. Arts can be used as propaganda standard relate the artist with disabled people link degeneracy and mental disability to the artists themselves questions. How did the modern artists engage with totalitarianism. How did totalitarian governments deal with modern art. What meanings did the concept of the avant-garde acquire during the interwar years. Picasso return to the traditional subject matters various focal point classical dressing, use of nonfragmented composed central figure return to order society was breaking because of the war chaos, natural tendency to the normal order. The essential innovation of the dreiklang was the fact that is was designed as a multi- perspective round sculpture that changed according to the perspective of the viewer and set its forms in motion. Matter and the surrounding space respectively positive and negative form are treated equally by rudolf belling, the shaping of empty space became a signature feature of his sculptures.
