1. What did the literature, the visual arts, and music portray about the two world wars? Provide three examples that demonstrate the Wars' influence and impact.

 

What did the literature, the visual arts, and music portray about the two world wars? 

Art changed over the time because it was a more tragic time so art started to get very dark. Art was more tragic and action painting were illustrated to show the tragic time. Violence and symbols of destruction were more obvious in artwork during this time influenced by the war. World War I altered the world for decades, and writers and poets reflected that shifted outlook in literature, novels and poetry. ... As Virginia Woolf would later write, "Then suddenly, like a chasm in a smooth road, the war came." Early works were romantic sonnets of war and death. During and after World War I, flowery Victorian language was blown apart and replaced by more sinewy and R-rated prose styles. In visual art, Surrealists and Expressionists devised wobbly, chopped-up perspectives and nightmarish visions of fractured human bodies and splintered societies slouching toward moral chaos.

Many artists dealt with WWI by focusing on the destruction of the war. But not all of them. The Dada movement was founded on the idea that WWI was caused by the emphasis of reason and logic over emotions and humanity, and so they responded by rejecting any sense of reason. The 1950s and 1960s saw the emergence of Abstract Expressionism, Color field painting, Conceptual artists of Art & Language, Pop art, Op art, Hard-edge painting, Minimal art, Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxes, Happening, Video art, Post minimalism, Photorealism and various other movements. World War II literature helped to make that war, later called the "good war," a defining moment in affirming America's democratic values and the nation's identity as a moral people. Later in the century the literature of the Vietnam War would take American war literature down a starkly different path.

 Provide three examples that demonstrate the Wars' influence and impact.

War destroys communities and families and often disrupts the development of the social and economic fabric of nations. The effects of war include long-term physical and psychological harm to children and adults, as well as reduction in material and human capital., The soldiers' status changes, so many of them come back to poverty and have no jobs. The jobs they had before the war have been taken by others in society. Soldiers' inability to work because of physical or emotional disability hurts the economy because the soldiers may seek extra benefits and Social Security,

During and after World War I, flowery Victorian language was blown apart and replaced by more sinewy and R-rated prose styles. In visual art, Surrealists and Expressionists devised wobbly, chopped-up perspectives and nightmarish visions of fractured human bodies and splintered societies slouching toward moral chaos.. Art changed over the time because it was a more tragic time so art started to get very dark. Art was more tragic and action painting were illustrated to show the tragic time. Violence and symbols of destruction were more obvious in artwork during this time influenced by the war.