Agenda 2/15/17 Kahoot game CSA Test Causes of WWI Finish Lesson #7 Literature, Art and WWI This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Exit Slip # 6

Exit Slip #6 How did WWI affect literature and art in western society? Sentence Starter: WWI affect literature and art in western society because________.

Agenda 2/10/17 Quiz: Causes of WWI Warm up # 8 Lesson #7 Literature, Art and WWI This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Exit Slip # 6

Warm up #8 What do you see in this picture Warm up #8 What do you see in this picture? what emotions does it portray? Sentence starters: In this picture, I see______. The painting portrays emotions of ________.

Lesson #7 Literature, Art and WWI FLT Students will be able to explain how Literature and art affected western society due to WWI.

Nash used his opportunity as a war artist to bring home the full horrors of the conflict. As he wrote to his wife from the front on 16 November, 1917: “I am no longer an artist. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on for ever. feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls."

Postwar uncertainty sparked disillusionment and to search for different meanings in life. People started to think differently than what had been taught for hundreds and thousands of years. The began questioning what was “expected” and this expression was carried out through arts, literature and music. Disillusion: To shatter one’s beliefs. Disenchanted. Existentialism: As humans, we are each responsible for our own choices. Individual self-determination (not just for countries) No master plan

Reflected itself in visual arts, literature and music ART: Art changed from the traditional realistic and ornate works, to works that reflected both oversimplification and a movement away from reality. New Art Movements: Dadaism, Surrealism, Expressionism and Abstract

Traditional Styles

Dada: The Anti-Art Fight Art with Art The Fountain “shocking common sense…and the prevailing order.” The Fountain

We had lost confidence in our culture. Everything had to be demolished. We would begin again after the “tabula rasa". At the Cabaret Voltaire we began by shocking common sense, public opinion, education, institutions, museums, good taste, in short, the whole prevailing order. - Marcel Janco, one of the founders of the Dada movement beginning in Switzerland

Traditional vs. Dada

These were first shown in Dada exhibit in Cologne, 1924 Works of Max Ernst, wounded in WWI

Surrealism: derives from Dadaism and connects with ideas of Sigmund Freud and scientist Einstein Freud: Human behavior is beyond reason. Einstein: What was known in the world of science has finally been called into question. Upsets faith in the absolute. “above reality.” Making the unconscious mind part of reality. Dream Like. Surrealists believe that this more truthful reality can bring about personal, cultural, and social revolution, and a life of freedom, poetry, and uninhibited sexuality. Painters who painted a reality without reason. Salvador Dali: Surrealism Giorgio de Chirico: Surrealism Pablo Picasso: Cubism

The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali

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Work is done with stark color contrasts and illustrative style Giorgio de Chirico Work is done with stark color contrasts and illustrative style

Surrealism in Photography and Collages

The figure is turned away from the viewer. Giorgio de Chirico

Cubism Objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form.

Then Now

Literature: “Lost Generation” * Phrase coined by Gertrude Stein * Refers to the young American writers who were disillusioned by the horrors of WWI * Unhappy with the lack of depth in American culture, specifically the writing. * Expatriated – Left America to live in Europe, usually Paris. * Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and T.S. Eliot were the most famous

Changes in Literature Individually: - Read the excerpt of This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Answer the Questions in Full Sentences –use separate sheet of paper