The Age of Anxiety Tise hUnkin & lillian hall
Picasso showed the chaos and devastation that people went through/ felt and how they were impacted from Europes unstable political rule by drawing humans an animals (dead and alive) after the horrible bombing that had happened early, with the humans and animals jumbled together in the background of broken hard-edged geometric shapes.
Dali represent the newfound importance of America with a man breaking out of the egg right where America is. Africa and South America are larger, showing their growing importance to the world. The man is clutching on Europe essentially crushing, indicating its importance to the world as an international power growing very very small.
The Bauhaus was an art school in Germany that was founded on its idea that a total work of art would have multiple piece of art in it, bringing it together. It influenced subsequent developments in art, architecture and much more.
it was closed down by its own leadership, due to the pressure from Nazi regime. The nazi government saw it as a center of communist intellectualism. It's staff wanted to continuing spreading the idea, so they left Germany and spread it around the world.
Flappers were northern, urban, single, young, middle-class women. Many held steady jobs in the changing American economy. Young women consumed alcohol in the decade it was illegal than ever before. Smoking, another activity previously reserved for men, became popular among flappers. With the political field leveled by the Nineteenth Amendment, women sought to eliminate social double standards.
During the Age of Anxiety, people's minds were filled with many new outlooks on science, arts, pop culture, ways of living, economics, the scare of new diseases and epidemics, and of course, anxiety. Many of the artists during the Interwar Years expressed their emotions towards the war, like in Picasso's Guernica. It showcased his reactions towards Nazi bombings, as well as the tragedies of the war. The interwar years also brought new styles of art into the world, like Socialist Realism, in which people expressed their 'superior' views through art and propaganda. Scientists were making big breakthroughs at this time as well, discovering ideals that are still being studied and discussed today. Some women had their minds filled with opportunities for freedoms. As men were gone during the wars, women had broken social normalities, and began to cut their hair short, smoke, and drink, and wear more revealing outfits. During the years when men came back, women continued to break these social structures, heads in the clouds, just trying to enjoy life. Many communities were also very concerned and focused on dealing with new diseases, like the influenza, which caused a deadly epidemic, killing all that caught it, and striking fear into the minds of those who didn't get it (yet). All in all, in the short amount of years that was the Age of Anxiety, minds were a hectic mess, and although this was not historically a long period of time, very much knowledge and occurrences that happened in this time were very relevant and shape/influence communities and pop culture even today. - Tise Hunkin