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    Art changed significantly after World War 1. Before the war, art styles like Impressionism and propaganda posters depicted the war in a positive, heroic light. However, as the war progressed art became more graphic and nightmarish as artists sought to portray the true horrors of war. After the war ended, new styles emerged like Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism which allowed artists to express their raw emotions and perspectives. These new styles influenced art for generations to come and gave artists a way to share their experiences of the war.

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    Art changed significantly after World War 1. Before the war, art styles like Impressionism and propaganda posters depicted the war in a positive, heroic light. However, as the war progressed art became more graphic and nightmarish as artists sought to portray the true horrors of war. After the war ended, new styles emerged like Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism which allowed artists to express their raw emotions and perspectives. These new styles influenced art for generations to come and gave artists a way to share their experiences of the war.

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    Art changed significantly after World War 1. Before the war, art styles like Impressionism and propaganda posters depicted the war in a positive, heroic light. However, as the war progressed art became more graphic and nightmarish as artists sought to portray the true horrors of war. After the war ended, new styles emerged like Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism which allowed artists to express their raw emotions and perspectives. These new styles influenced art for generations to come and gave artists a way to share their experiences of the war.

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    Art changed significantly after World War 1. Before the war, art styles like Impressionism and propaganda posters depicted the war in a positive, heroic light. However, as the war progressed art became more graphic and nightmarish as artists sought to portray the true horrors of war. After the war ended, new styles emerged like Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism which allowed artists to express their raw emotions and perspectives. These new styles influenced art for generations to come and gave artists a way to share their experiences of the war.

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    History 1

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    May 14, 2015

    How was art changed by World War 1?


    Art plays a major role in describing what the society and people are going through or the
    social stability of the time; changing art means a changing society. Art has a way of expressing
    how the people can feel and is constantly evolving into something that everybody can relate to.
    The most common art styles before the war were Impressionism, modern art and propaganda
    posters to advertise the good in going into war. The art styles became more of what the artist
    wanted for what their emotions were but put down onto paper; expressionism. This gave people
    the power for their voice to be heard amongst the crowds of people.
    Art before World War 1 was all about advertising the war and its benefits. Heroic
    depictions of soldiers happily fighting with words like; hero, courage, chivalry were often seen
    under the drawings. Art later changed to become more bloody, nightmarish, and choppy.
    Drawings of soldiers hunched over and defeated with ruin and decay all around them became a
    very popular form of art. Words like; courage, bravery, and honor were seen as obscene and rude
    to put into a drawing. The true vision of what the war really held was shown and people wanted
    to run from what they couldnt escape.
    After the war art changed to styles like cubism, surrealism, and expressionism.
    Expressionism was all about expressing how the artist felt. Expressionism was used by Vincent

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    Van Gough and it uses exaggerated colors, and distorted lines to really get an emotional impact.
    Cubism was the style of stressed lines of geometry and symbols that represents an object from
    many different angles, often used by Pablo Picasso. Surrealism used a mashup of collage,
    cubism, and dada as a way to express the weird and fascinating part of the human subconscious.
    These art styles helped to develop what artists now are using today in art, they gave people more
    of a voice and a way to express themselves.
    Art can have a powerful influence on the people in the time ere. After World War 1 the
    people changed their views on a lot of things, from how the war really was, and it gave artists
    everywhere a way to share their idea and their own voice could be heard out in a crowd. Art can
    show the people many generations down the line what life really was and how it mustve felt to
    be that person, it gives many people a connection that very rarely can be felt. Art after WW1 was
    forever changed by the hardships that the people had to endure; they were able to tell their stories
    through the art that they made. Art can change the way people see things around them and can
    impact the generations to come.

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