climb aboard and head for the Nouvelle station
Objectivity we are in 1937 an exhibition called degenerate art takes place in Munich the exhibition
is neither organized by a nor by a curator organized by the Nazi regime the works on
display are deliberately misrepresented misrepresented and labeled as examples of decadence of modern art this art goes against
the so-called official art of the heroic Lardy regime these artists are considered degenerate and
a threat to the German nation but which movement in particular was able
to attract the fury of a united Germany, and how to explain
it? that this movement was considered dangerous
these artists were part of the current New Objectivity, a movement that took off
in Germany from 1923 [Music] a little earlier, in 1920, Expressionism
had become commonplace, this movement was breaking away with impressionism and academic realism
expressionism was a cry from the heart against the horrors of war exacerbate it had to be
it had to be powerful if it was to be heard by all. to amplify reality, but today it's time
a return to more real feelings closer to the reality experienced by the population
in 1927 German artist Auguste Sanders published a book entitled Face Off time the book is
a collection of photographs of ordinary people in Germany representing a wide variety
professions, social classes and ages the book was quickly criticized
conservatives and nationalists who saw the photographs as an attack
traditional German values yet Sanders continues to defend his work
explaining that his intention was to show the diversity of German society and to capture
the objective reality of life at the time. explains that I photograph not only what I
see what I see, but also what I feel I try to show how people live
how they work and how they think many young german artists will paint
reality as it is, from a distance, to show the subjects will be more sober, more concrete
more sober more concrete more rooted in reality at the same time in France Pablo Picasso
returned to figurative art to the concrete and the real. return to figuration New Objectivity will make its mark
in two major cities, Berlin and Munich in Berlin, the left-wing branch included
such as Otto Dix Georges Gross Christian Chade in Munich the right-hand branch, linked
to to the cities of karlsr and nearby Munich classicism stands out with artists
Alexander canalt Georges shrimpe and Franz rat Vivi groups of artists form a common movement
called New Objectivity, but where does it come from? name the movement found its name in 1925 at
a at a highly publicized exhibition of expressionist positions, held at the
held at Kunster High in the town of Manheim no manifesto or program was written
unlike Surrealism, which developed at the same period in France, it was a spontaneous
movement spontaneous movement that spread throughout
Germany the new objective has been extended to other
such as drawing, photography and film when Hitler came to power in 1933
many artists chose exile and the movement eventually died out. movement took off in a period that art had to be as close to reality
to be as close as possible to reality utopian, which at the time was no longer known
to the the avant-garde of Expressionism. still one of the most influential movements
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