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« on: September 10, 2023, 08:36:18 pm »
Art's traditional focus on originality and specificity gradually disappeared as reprintability and universality of images became priorities invested in printed materials that encouraged nationalism and support for the war and hostility toward their enemies. Then as today the true horrors of war were understated if depicted at all. The glory of the just cause and the monster of the enemy were key. Technological advances have impacted the content of war art as well as its production and distribution. Progressive industrial ideas often go hand in hand with warmongering ideas of human superiority over nature, patriarchal and white supremacist ideas, and nationalism.
This is best exemplified by Phone Number List Italian Futurism, a turn-of-the-century art movement that embraced violent, fanatical patriotism and misogyny. The Futurist Manifesto written by the poet Filippo Tommasomenetti in 2001 declares that we want to glorify war, the world’s only health, militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of liberals, the beautiful ideas for which people died and the impact on humanity. Contempt. Miss. Ironically the movement died out in World War I when many members were killed. History becomes a performance when art is used as war propaganda.
The catastrophe of war It is difficult to imagine that an artist create propaganda in support of the war and it was when artists began to draw on their personal experiences that the depiction of war underwent a dramatic moral shift. Francisco de Goya created the spectacular and highly political series Disasters of War, made up of lithographs, after visiting battlefields around Madrid to witness the carnage of the Napoleonic Wars. Goya's images of suffering in its many forms fascinate observers. Feeling uneasy stirs up indignation. The artist wrote emotional captions under each image such as You Can't Look at It This Is Bad This Is.
This is best exemplified by Phone Number List Italian Futurism, a turn-of-the-century art movement that embraced violent, fanatical patriotism and misogyny. The Futurist Manifesto written by the poet Filippo Tommasomenetti in 2001 declares that we want to glorify war, the world’s only health, militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of liberals, the beautiful ideas for which people died and the impact on humanity. Contempt. Miss. Ironically the movement died out in World War I when many members were killed. History becomes a performance when art is used as war propaganda.
The catastrophe of war It is difficult to imagine that an artist create propaganda in support of the war and it was when artists began to draw on their personal experiences that the depiction of war underwent a dramatic moral shift. Francisco de Goya created the spectacular and highly political series Disasters of War, made up of lithographs, after visiting battlefields around Madrid to witness the carnage of the Napoleonic Wars. Goya's images of suffering in its many forms fascinate observers. Feeling uneasy stirs up indignation. The artist wrote emotional captions under each image such as You Can't Look at It This Is Bad This Is.