1. Post WWI Society
1920s and 1930s

2. Culture Changes
Why?
WWI leaves people wondering about the nature of mankind
Spanish Influenza kills 22 million people
Worldwide economic trouble
Political chaos
= people rebel against tradition

3. Part I: Fashion
Before and After

4. Write down 5 observations about traditional fashion
Write down 5 observations about new fashion trends

5. The Before Look ( )

6. The New Look: 1920s Flappers

7. More Fashion

8. Check Out That Short Hair!

9. Part II: Entertainment

10. Radio- provided entertainment and information on a mass scale

11. Movies- an audience could be entertained and even catch up on current events with news reels at the beginning of the movie
Clara Bow
Phantom of the opera
Charlie Chaplin

12. Vacations-the pursuit of pleasure after the horrors of WWI
The Nazis even
offered vacations
and leisure activities!

13. “ Without motor-cars, sound films, and wireless (radio), (there would be) no victory of Nazism.”
-Adolf Hitler

14. Part III: Art
Breaking all the Rules

15. New Movements
Expressionism - shapes, lines, and color are used to express emotion and inner experience
Gives emotions a visual representation
Dada - use of ideas or objects with no seeming relationship to one another
Rejects tradition and rules
Surrealism - seeks to depict the inner workings of the unconscious mind
Creates a fantasy world

16. Jot it Down Artist Names (when possible)
Style associated with each artist

17. Wassily Kandinsky-Expressionism
On White II

18. Dada
                                                

19. Dada
                                               
                                                   

20. Surrealism - Salvador Dali

21. Surrealism - Joan Miro

22. Think About It
What does the art and fashion of the 1920s s tell you about how people thought about traditional society?

23. Create a Billboard
Use one example each of fashion, entertainment and art
Advertise the new trends and convince people to participate in them
One picture and one slogan per example
Must be in color!