Otto Dix was born on the 2nd of December, 1891 and during his early years he showed an interest in art. During WW1, Dix enlisted in the army and served as a a machine gun artillery personnel, however, his time in the war was cut short when he got injured in the neck by a bullet and then was discharged. Before war, Dix had been undergoing an art study, and this was continued when he returned to Dresden from WW1. Dix’s time in WW1 was the inspiration for his earlier work, often depicting his traumatic experiences through paintings.…
Artists hold strong power in their community. Thousands of people come to view their art, and from that art they gain a message. Throughout history artists have used imagery to communicate their beliefs to their audience. Sometimes it’s emotional, or there could be no message at all, and sometimes it’s about social, political or cultural issues. Two Australian artists that have conveyed this are Arthur Boyd and Noel Counihan.…
On May 12, 1889, a young Jewish man by the name of Otto Frank was born. This birth took place in the big city of Frankfurt, Germany. He was born to a family of one older brother named Robert. Then, later came along a younger brother, named Herbert. A little while later, he was followed by a little sister named Helen. His mother went by the name of Alice Betty Stern, then to marry Micheal Frank and take the family name. Otto grew up with a relatively normal Jewish childhood. Later in life, he graduated high school. Then, he spent a summer studying art history at the university of Heidelberg.…
These works of art attempt to impact and acknowledge the memory of war by showing you before, during, and after a war. They take different aspects of war itself, and through different perspectives and artistic designs, they…
Dorothea Dix's ancestry shows much of the woman she later became in her life. Dorothea's grandfather, Elijah Dix,…
This portfolio of horror movie worthy paintings, is known as Der Krieg or “The War” which was published in 1924. This is where the tale of Otto Dix meets the present day. Just this last week, all 50 paintings from Dix’s collection had taken their rightful place in World War One exhibit of Washington D.C.’s National Museum of American History. In the exhibit, Der Krieg’s paintings, made by method of etching with an aquatint medium, sit in all of their glory. The method of artistry Otto Dix used in this series allowed him to increase the emotional and realistic effects of his horror filled images, and accurately show the aftermath of the war on its soldiers and battle fields. Anyone interested in seeing the cold hard truth of World War One, would…
They are a few artists that display arts that make people uncomfortable or questioned themselves as to why they wanted to see their display. Some of the arts bring out our emotion. For example, Chris Ofili painted an art piece called The Holy Virgin Mary, and it caused a lot of controversies in the Brooklyn Museum of Arts. He got positive review from other countries, but when he displayed in the Brooklyn Museum he got a lot of people angry especially the mayor.…
She was born on April 4, 1802, in Hampden, Maine (History.com). Her family had difficulties because her father was an alcoholic and her mother suffered from depression (History.com). Dix did what she could to take care of the household and her two other siblings (History.com). At age twelve, Dorothea Dix went to live with her grandmother in Boston (History.com). Her grandmother was wealthy and helped Dix find her passion: teaching (History.com). She had a second cousin named Edward and he wanted to help her get started by looking for suitable places to teach (faculty.webster.edu). When Dix was eighteen, he asked her to marry him, but she turned him down (faculty.webster.edu). According to Jenn Bumb, an author for faculty.webster.edu, Dorothea Dix opened schools in Boston and Worcester and gave young girls, rich and poor, a chance to have a strong education. Dix designed her own curriculum and wrote textbooks for her students (History.com). Dix devoted so much energy into her school, and when her grandmother got sick, she spent time taking care of her (History.com). In 1836, Dix dedicated so much time to helping her grandmother and working with her students that she grew tired (History.com). According to Jenn Bumb, Dorothea Dix showed symptoms of the disease we now call tuberculosis. Her doctor told her to take time off work and go on a trip (faculty.webster.edu). After pursuing her dream as a teacher for several years, she became too sick and tired to continue, so traveled to Europe…
Dorthea Dix’s early life, humanitarian acts, and later life have contributed to the way mankind views the mentally ill today. To begin with, she was born on April 4, 1802 in Hampden, Maine. Dorothea was the first of three children; daughter of Joseph Dix and Mary Bigelow Dix (Bumb,…
When she was twelve years old, her father encourage her to take lessons in copying plaster casts and drawing. At the age of sixteen she applied to the Königsberg Academy of Art, because she was a female her application wasn’t accepted. Kollwitz’s earliest drawings represent hard working people during their…
She was in a family of 4. She had a dad (Otto), a mom (Edith), her sister (Margot) and herself. Their family had a great family business. The business was called Opekta. It was a company which is licensed to sell pectin. It is also the name of the gelling agent to make homemade jam.…
To appreciate Dada, one must first know the context of its time. To truly understand Dada, one must understand the deep pain of the artists, the ferocity of the disgust toward the bestiality of their supposedly modern world, and the deep longing for change at the hearts of its various contributors. During the onset of the first world war, many European artists were horrified at humanities bourgeois and violent nature, the nationalism that consumed its thoughts, and the authoritarianism that defined it. Early Dadaists were born out of opting for nothingness, silliness, self-expression and rebellion as a viable alternative for what they believed to be the downfall of the modern world; it’s self-assured seriousness. This reaction was the catalyst for the movement, which in essence was a backlash at the world at war and the mass slaughter that was to be its legacy. They rejected any leadership and their guiding ideologies, focusing the attentions of their hatred on the bourgeois’ sense of cultural superiority, their customs and their pro-war attitudes. They were outraged with how society had let, no, encouraged so much death to consume them. Doing all they could to escape the horror of war, Dadaist Jean Arp when approached for conscription took the paperwork given to him, wrote the date all over the gaps he was to fill out, underlined them, and added them up. He then took off all of his clothes and went to hand in his paperwork. He was ordered to go home, and would later find out that he was his own saviour. Later during 1916 the Battle of Somme claimed well over a million lives, and the war was just getting started. When it concluded, France and Germany would face over 3 million dead, as well as over 8 million wounded. The Dadaists’ homes and families would never be…
Oz, T. (2010). Art of the first world war: Death. Retrieved January 13, 2011 from http://www.art-ww1.com/gb/present.html…
When a work transcends into art, it surpasses its cultural restraints and touches us. We are moved; we are transported to a new place that is, nevertheless, strongly rooted in a physical experience, in our bodies. When we focus on works such as Van Gogh’s “Old Man in Sorrow” or Velazquez’s “Christ Crucified” rather than “The Scream” or “Campbell’s Soup Cans”, we become aware of a feeling that may not be unfamiliar to us but which we did not actively focus on before. Unlike popular culture, this transformative experience is what art is constantly seeking. The emotions invoked from a reading of Yeats or Frost pulls the strings of our conscience and heart and most importantly, they inspire and motivate us to change ourselves and/or the world around us. No amount of Meyer or Collins can bring forth the willingness to examine and investigate our lives or the lives of others. The felt feeling of art spurs thinking, engagement, and even action. Only art alone helps people get to know and understand something with their minds and feel it emotionally and physically. By doing this, art can mitigate the almost numbing effect created by modern pop culture and society and motivate people to start thinking and doing.…
Otto Frank was probably the most generous and calm person of the "family." Otto Frank was a devoted father and husband while in hiding. He helped the children by tutoring them and helping them with schoolwork. He not only helped Margot and Anne, but he offered to help Peter, the Van Daan's son. Otto Frank was intelligent when it came to helping the kids. He tried his best to make them understand. He also had a very good profession, which happened to be right below the annex. Another important characteristic of Mr. Frank was that he was modest and fair. As Anne says from her diary, "(Father) is the most modest person at the table. He always looks to see whether the others have been served first. He needs nothing for himself; the best things are for the children. He's goodness personified." Otto Frank paid back the debts to Mr. Van Daan. He is always doing what he feels is the right thing to do, always returning the favor. He makes sure that the family divides everything up equally among them, always referring to himself last. "He walks around with his lips pressed together," as quoted in Anne's diary. Lastly, Otto Frank is very hopeful and courageous when it comes to raising the family. After the first thief…