Art and Social issues

PART 1: The time period that I chose write about is World War I. I always wanted to learn more about this time period, but I never had a chance to explore it. World War I started on July 28, 1914 and ended four years later on November 11, 1918. It involved all the world’s great powers, which were known as the Allies and Central Powers. The countries in the Allies were United Kingdom, France and Russia and with the Central Powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. The artist that I chose to portray WWI is Natalia Goncharova. The war was crucial in Natalia's expression of art because she lived with the constant worry that her beloved Larinov would lose his life while in service. Majority of her paintings art form are both impressionism and expressionism, but once the war hit she began drawing in the form of futurism.

PART 2: The social questions that the art addresses during the World War I are whether or not this is what an individual perceives the war as when they have a loved one serving the front line. Most of Goncharova’s paintings deal with her worrying about her husband serving in the war. She was afraid that he was going to die or get severely hurt. Women who have family members in the war perceive death differently. I believe Goncharova achieved this in the painting, A Common Grave, 1914.

In this painting, she has the grave of the soldiers underground all together. She has an angel above them praying over them. I believe this is how she believes if her husband died during the war this is how he would end up. She achieved this because I believe I would have thought of it this way too until they families would collect the bodies if they knew about it.
The art from that I chose was futurism. Futurism was used to emphasize and glorify themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city. This art form reflects the