Alienation and Disillusionment: the art of the Twentieth Century The increasing de-personalization of industrial society combined with the horrors of two world wars led to growing feelings of alienation and disillusionment in the twentieth century. This was especially reflected in much of the art. While Picasso continued in the spirit of experimentation made possible by the impressionists and the camera in the 1800s, these more abstract forms of expression lent themselves to expressing the growing anxiety of the century. Following is a brief overview of some of that art, starting with Picasso and the somewhat disturbing combat art of such men as Otto Dix in World War I and running through the surrealists and modern abstract art.
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Alienation and Disillusionment: the art of the Twentieth Century
The increasing de-personalization of industrial society combined with the horrors of two world wars led to growing feelings of alienation and disillusionment in the twentieth century. This was especially reflected in much of the art. While Picasso continued in the spirit of experimentation made possible by the impressionists and the camera in the 1800s, these more abstract forms of expression lent themselves to expressing the growing anxiety of the century. Following is a brief overview of some of that art, starting with Picasso and the somewhat disturbing combat art of such men as Otto Dix in World War I and running through the surrealists and modern abstract art.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Self Portrait, 1907
Pablo Picasso (1881-73), Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), La Granade, 1911
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Woman with a Guitar, 1912
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Guitar made from cardboard (later destroyed), 1912
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Guitar, 1913
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Woman with a Flower, 1932
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Portrait of a Girl before a Mirror, 1932
French gun crew with gas masks
Medical aid station at Verdun
Felix Vallotton, In the Shadows
Masereel, Arise, You Dead, Infernal Resurrection
Otto Dix, Trench Suicide
Crump, Airburst
Paul Nash, Ypres Salient at Night
Nevinson, Bursting Shell
Paul Nash, Night Bombardment
Nevinson, Explosion, 1916
Otto Dix, The Flare, 1917
Nevinson, The Machine Gun
Albin Egger-Linz, Those Who have Lost their Names
George Leroux, Hell
William Orpen, Dead Germans in a Trench
Thiepval, a battle fought as part of the Somme campaign
Paul Nash, Void
Nevinson, Harvest of Battle
Nevinson, Paths of Glory, 1917, Censored by British Gov. for its impact on public morale
Otto Dix, Flanders (1934-6). His last painting with its strong anti-war message was strongly disapproved of by the new Nazi regime then ruling Germany
Georg Grosz, Explosion
George Grosz, Leichengegangnis
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Guernica, 1937
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Guernica (detail),1937
Fernand Leger (1881-1955),Sketch for the Railway, 1919
Fernand Leger (1881-1955), Divers on a Yellow Background, 1941