Made him one of the lefts most powerful propagandists. I felt the ground shaking beneath my feet, he said. And the shaking was visible in my work. His caricatures of weimar germany reject a society depraved by greed and power. Groszs contempt was shared by wider artistic developments in europe and america. Those developments became known as dada. Dada was like a storm that broke over the world of art. It had many centers from zurich to hanover from cologne to new york and many sorts of artistic expression. Unlike grosz in berlin these dada artists didnt see the exposure of Class Divisions as their central purpose. They attacked the foundations on which nations were built truth, beauty, reason, science. In the wake of the catastrophe all these values were brought into question. In paris and new york, Marcel Duchamp produced his readymades a hat stand, a bottle rack ordinary everyday items promoted to the status of art objects simply because the artist had signed them. And by signing thi
I think the title was the archetypal world of henry moore and he sent me a copy, which he asked me to read. But after the first chapter i thought i better stop because it explained too much. And i thought it might stop me from ticking over if i went on and knew it all. narrator moore was english to the bone, he carved his reputation in english elm and boxwood, cumberland alabaster, and portland stone. When his art made him wealthy he turned to bronze and marble, but he never turned away from england. For all its rain and taxes it w h and he cleared a new path for english art. anthony caro you look at the history of english art, and its pretty miserable after constable and turner and so on, and henry, somehow, was competing with braque and picasso and so on. You know, he was in that same league. And so it made people realize you can be an artist and you can be english. narrator sculpture made him famous, his celebrity enshrined in wax at madame tussauds. Other celebrities bought his wor
When his art made him wealthy he turned to bronze and marble, but he never turned away from england. For all its rain and taxes it was h and he cleared a new path for english art. anthony caro you look at the history of english art, and its pretty miserable after constable and turner and so on, and henry, somehow, was competing with braque and picasso and so on. You know, he was in that same league. And so it made people realize you can be an artist and you can be english. narrator sculpture made him famous, his celebrity enshrined in wax at madame tussauds. Other celebrities bought his works and enjoyed his company. Dorothy Kosinski i actually think that one has to consider quite seriously a very intriguing dilemma, and that is whether an artists sense of direction and value and worth is that potentially obscured by fame . narrator henry moore was born in the mining town of castleford in 1898. His career began in 1921 when he left yorkshire with a scholarship to study at the Royal Col
In the south of france. In germany, the sequel to defeat was revolution a bitter struggle between nationalists and revolutionaries. Groszs observations of nationalist brutality made him one of the lefts most powerful propagandists. I felt the ground shaking beneath my feet, he said. And the shaking was visible in my work. His caricatures of weimar germany reject a society depraved by greed and power. Groszs contempt was shared by wider artistic developments in europe and america. Those developments became known as dada. Dada was like a storm that broke over the world of art. It had many centers from zurich to hanover, from cologne to new york and many sorts of artistic expression. Unlike grosz in berlin, these dada artists didnt see the exposure of Class Divisions as their central purpose. They attacked the foundations on which nations were built truth, beauty, reason, science. In the wake of the catastrophe, all these values were brought into question. In paris and new york, Marcel Du
The sequel to defeat was revolution a bitter struggle between nationalists and revolutionaries. Groszs observations of nationalist brutality made him one of the lefts most powerful propagandists. I felt the ground shaking beneath my feet, he said. And the shaking was visible in my work. His caricatures of weimar germany reject a society depraved by greed and power. Groszs contempt was shared by wider artistic developments in europe and america. Those developments became known as dada. Dada was like a storm that broke over the world of art. It had many centers from zurich to hanover, from cologne to new york and many sorts of artistic expression. Unlike grosz in berlin, these dada artists didnt see the exposure of Class Divisions as their central purpose. They attacked the foundations on which nations were built truth, beauty, reason, science. In the wake of the catastrophe, all these values were brought into question. In paris and new york, Marcel Duchamp produced his readymades a hat