Sunday, August 24 - 3:30 PM
Expressionism: From Thousands of Years of Figuration to Subjective Art in
Two Decades
Bill Robinson
20th Century Collection
BOOTH # 2219
Art was altered in a profound way with the advent of World War I--figuration was no longer
sufficient to express the horrors of war on a pan European scale. Artists on both sides of the
conflict were appalled by the destruction and magnitude of the conflict and fought back with
works of art that showed not only the futility of the war but the greed and arrogance of the
aristocracy and political/social order. It was essential for these artists to reflect the mental
anguish of both combatants and civilians. From these darkly subjective images grew the roots
of a new form of art from Expressionism to Dada to Abstract Expressionism, to Avant-Garde to
Constructivist to pure Abstraction and more.
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