ARTISTIC REACTIONS TO WAR AND THE MODERN WORLD History Alive! Activity 4.4 BETWEEN THE WARS UNIT CHAPTER 26 - SPIELVOGEL
WARM UP – TUESDAY, APRIL 5TH WRITE ONE PARAGRAPH (AT LEAST 3-5 SENTENCES) EITHER SUPPORTING OR REFUTING THE FOLLOWING PROPOSITION ON YOUR NOTECARD: ART SERVES NO PURPOSE IN TODAY’S SOCIETY
Vassily Kandinsky; Improvisation No. 30; oil on Canvas, 1913, 43 by 43 inches
Carlos Carra’s Manifesto for Intervention, Collage on cardboard, 1914, 15 by 12 inches
Fernard Leger’s Le Remorqueur, Oil on canvas, 1920, 41 by 52 inches
Rene Magritte’s On the Threshhold Of Liberty, oil on Canvas, 1929, 45 by 52 inches
Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, oil on canvas, 1937, 11.5 by 25.5 feet
Max Ernst’s Europe After the Rain II, oil on canvas, 1940-42, 21 Max Ernst’s Europe After the Rain II, oil on canvas, 1940-42, 21.5 by 58 inches
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Writing Prompt – Europe Between the Wars IN WHAT WAYS AND TO WHAT EXTENT DID EUROPEAN PAINTINGS REFLECT THE DISILLUSIONMENT IN SOCIETY BETWEEN 1919 AND 1939? USE AT LEAST TWO PIECES OF ARTWORK TO SUPPORT YOUR POSITION. Respond to the prompt on a separate sheet of paper with the following: Full thesis (answer question and road map) Outline for essay completion - a full topic sentence for each supporting paragraph - identify piece of artwork and why it meets the criteria