Modern Art And The Decline Of Civilization
The chaos which modern artists suffered and expressed through their artwork assumed varied varieties within the works of 19th century painters. In its subtlest, and most aesthetically pleasing form, it may be seen in the masterpieces of Caspar David Friedrich, one of many preeminent forerunners of modern Sharon Mundy Art, and Edvard Munch. Through their works both these artists gave visual illustration to the ethos of desolation which was spreading across Europe at the time. In Friedrich’s paintings the setting for this ethos of desolation is nature.
“…there has by no means been anything comparable in history. ] is a world in himself, endeavoring alone to ward off the chaos that menaces him or to give it type, every along with his own characteristic desperation. It isn’t any accident that we hear so much at present of the void and forlornness of the individual.
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In Picasso’s paintings, for instance, the human being is damaged into fragmented elements, after which pieced together once more in disjointed, summary, and sometimes hideous varieties. “Picasso’s art no longer seeks the entire human being at all. It has lost the school of seeing things as wholes. Within the motion of Surrealism the chaotic isn’t only represented visually, however explicitly exalted as a precept of life. Salvador Dali declared painting to be the “coloured instantaneous pictures of concrete irrationality”, and the “systematization of confusion”. Andre Breton, in his Second Manifesto, declared Surrealism to have attained a viewpoint from which “life and loss of life, the real and imagined, top and bottom are no longer experienced as contradictory opposites”. When studying this latter assertion one cannot assist but remember Nietzsche’s warning of the existential disorientation he thought would manifest following the decline of the Christian worldview. “Are we not regularly falling? —backwards, sideways and in all instructions? Do high and backside nonetheless remain?