The Great War screwed the loser countries up, and the winning countries didn’t gain that much in the long term
Postwar Pessimism
Lost generation-Gertrude Stein
Religious Uncertainty
Theologians decide that the original sin isn’t progressive, and God’s realization isn’t really becoming realized
Attacks on Progress
Smart people are only used to make weapons and stuff
Universal male suffrage before great war, and after women suffrage
Democracy appeal
Others didn’t like free power, and wanted certain power holders
Revolutions in Physics and Psychology
Albert Einstein makes a theory that space and time aren’t absolutes
The Uncertainty Principle
Heisenberg made this principle about subatomic principles but more importantly made truth more evident and violated the fundamental law of cause and effect. Objectivity is no longer valid.
Freud’s Psychoanalytic
Challenged morality and mental behaviors
Focused more on psychology than physiology
Beliebed dreams held the key to the deepest recesses of the human psyche.
Believed there was a sex drive, and his theory known as psychoanalysis provided the keys to understanding human behavior
Experimentation in Art and Architecture
After photography painting became more creative
No more painting regular objects
Artistic Influences
Japanese prints influenced French and other Europeans because they already became abstract before them
they became liberal with realism
Same influence by other Indigenous groups in Americas and Africa
Bauhaus
Institution that brought architects, designers, and painters from several countries.
In Germany, Walter Gropius became first director and made Bauhaus a principle of marriage between engineering and art.
Ludwig Mies von der Rohe helped design steel frames with glass
This style was good for large apartment and buildings, but India didn’t like it.
Global Depression
Early 1920’s were good then in 1929 the Great Depression