Did you know that Adolf Hitler did not create the Swastika? In fact, it was created around 5,000 years before Hitler designed the Nazi Flag. Over time it has changed in multiple different religions, appeared on buildings across the world, and has altered pieces of propaganda.…
Art throughout the many years that it has existed has been seen in many different ways, shapes and forms, whether it is a painting from the renaissance area or a sculpture from the modern era. Even some of the technologies and sports are considered pieces of “Art” although under the pop culture category, still a part of the art family. In the 1930’s there wasn’t anything like what we get to experience with social media and all the technology there is now. In fact the 1930’s was a part of the great depression which was a time for sorrow and mourning as WWII was going on and most everyone was poor. The people of this time has to figure out something to do for entertainment and to get away from all the sorrow, so the people looked to painting to express themselves and give a sense of entertainment. One of the most famous artists was alive during this time, by the name of Salvador Dali. This man created some o the world’s greatest artworks and one of the most known is: The Persistence of Memory. This particular has many different formal elements to it and I am going to help express these elements.…
BETWEEN THE WARS- Rise of European Ultra Nationalism STUDY GUIDE AND READING ASSIGNMENTS Chapter 30/ Sect 1, 3, 4 Plus…. supplemental material introduced in class Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ~Colman…
On the back of this development that saw architects in Europe questioning this reliance on the past for artistic inspiration, was the resurgence of pan- German nationalism. (Individuals in Modern History : Leni Riefenstahl & Albert Speer, Frappell, 2002, pg. 61-62) It is through this renaissance movement that saw architecture becoming a significant part of Nazi propaganda, despite the initial Nazi concept of “blunt und boden” which characterised the debate over “the city versus the country”. Like the great states in antiquity, Hitler wanted the stone ruins of Nazism to be a reminder a thousand years into the future of the grandeur of National Socialism. (Albert Speer - Personality Study, Kelly, 2012, pg. 15) Speer helped fulfil Hitler’s desires in his early work in the Nazi Party by impressing Hitler with his May Day rally and Nuremberg Rally designs that saw the strong incorporation of monumental neo-Classical features. Speer noted that the iron and steel reinforcement used in modern buildings, ultimately made a building look unattractive when it deteriorated. Speer felt that…
Then at the conclusion of the tour, there was another image of that same mother and her children dead, on top of that images there was another quote written by Anne Frank that said “ ideals, dreams and cherished hope rise within us only to meet the horrible truth, and be shattered”, meaning that later in the war Anne Frank amongst others- slowly lost their hope. These three sculptures really gave us a good image of how dreadful the Holocaust really…
In the Holocaust there were many paintings that had gone missing. Some were lost in the holocaust, and some were found. Many of these artifacts we know of because of the jews telling us about their stories about the artifacts. What the paintings meant to them, why they wanted them. This paper will tell you about 7 lost, stolen, or found art pieces.…
The Hitler Youth was an organization of young men around the ages of 14-18 that were meant to insure the future of Nazi Germany. Since its creation in 1926 the membership of the organization had grown from roughly 5,000 to nearly 8,000,000 due to the Nazi Party forcing nearly all children to be a part of it. Many activities closely resembled military training, with weapons training, assault course circuits and basic tactics.…
Literature can be an extremely powerful tool of persuasion. One man with one idea has the potential to influence hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people through writing. In fact, one particularly influential piece of literature convinced an entire population of people to ostracize, shun, and even murder their fellow citizens. Compelling texts such as Hitler’s Mein kampf allow me to believe that literature could be considered propaganda. These pieces of literature, when written to pacify a specific audience, can strongly appeal to humanity’s “passions”, as Plato suggests. I believe that authors use literature as a vehicle to demonstrate their personal beliefs and influence their audience to share those beliefs.…
While all pieces of art have a purpose that represents the essence of the time period, some hold a larger grasp in the majority of the lives of others. For example, the catastrophic events that unraveled in the 1920’s have…
Theists, atheist, and agnostics all believe in something. Whether it is the theists that believe in one supernatural being that has power over us. Or maybe it is the atheists that strongly believe there is no existing supernatural being that has control over the people. Or it might be someone like me that is Agnostic, which means I believe that the truth will never be known.…
What is the first thing you think of when modern art is declared? Random paints scattered on a blank canvas? While this is a picture-perfect example of modern art, there is more to it than just random paintings: the artist has a goal. Wherever man exists, there is art, because art is anything made or done by man that affects or moves us so that we feel and see beauty. Man uses his mind to discover a unique beauty in which the artist sees his feelings and inspiration effects on how he will express his art.…
Hitler's Childhood Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in a small Austrian village called Braunau-am-Inn. Adlof was born a sickly child, his mother, Klara, watched over him night and day. Klara Hitler protected young Adolf from her short-tempered husband, Alois. Adolf grew into a thin, dark-haired, blue-eyed boy with an angular face (Twisted 63). At the age of 6, Hitler started school and showed excellent achievement in his classes. Outside of school young Hitler was energetic and had many friends. Adolf's home life was far less happy. His father ran the household like a military boot camp. When his father was in the same room as him, Adolf was not allowed to speak without permission. The first signs of Adolf's aggression showed up at the age of 7.…
Adolph Hitler and Hermann Goering were dominant, pitiless leaders that were obsessed with art. As Edward Dolnick quoted Goering “I love art for art’s sake”. Hitler aspired to be painter, and applied to an art school in Vienna, but was rejected as mentioned in “rape of Europa”. According to rape of Europa, this perturbed Hitler because abstract modernists were accepted over him and generally Hitler hated what was going on in modern art. The fact that he has been dismissed from Vienna art school in favor of abstract and modern styles grew his hatred more for modern paintings as talked in Barron and rape of Europa. He hated modern art because of its abstract figures, shapes of the figures and its undefined lines. Hitler wants art that represented the Aryan nation that is from Europe descent. In the “forgers spell”, Dolnick adds that Hitler fantasized to build an art museum in his hometown of Linz, Austria (51). Baron says Hitler wanted to prove to the world that he was powerful. He demonstrated this by filling up his museum with the most valuable paintings in Europe.…
Do you know who Adolf Hitler is? He was a political dictator that ruined the lives of many…
The emergence of the Holocaust and the Nazi party views can largely be determined as a result of modernity, as a reaction against the times. Yet, at the same time it can be argued that the National Socialist party can be characterized as a modern development. Modris Eksteins, George Mosse, and Zygmundt Bauman offer an in-depth look into both the anti-modern and modern aspects of the Nazi movement and the resulting Holocaust. Ekstein's work proves to be the most thorough of the three works in following the growth and progress of the Nazi party and Hitler's rise to power. Bauman covers more of the political side of the National Socialists, and especially appeals to morality and ethics, or rejection thereof, to portray his very opinionated points. Mosse, on the other hand, analyzes the people who fell victim to the ideology of the Nazi party, "In a sense, this study is a historical analysis of people captured to such an extent by an ideology that they lost sight of civilized law and civilized attitudes toward their fellow men," (Mosse, 9). For all three authors, modernity is the major force for change- the change that results in the rise of the national socialist party.…