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This 5 page report discusses European art of the years encompassing World War I, post World War and the onset of World War II. It was art filled with contradiction and radical change and served as an appropriate metaphor for the social and political upheaval faced throughout Europe as well. The paper discusses Matisse, Picasso, and Magritte in such a context. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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II was art filled with contradiction and radical change. Such art served as an appropriate metaphor for the social and political upheaval faced throughout Europe as well. Although historians
might think that artistic illustrations are a form of documentation that supplements written materials, it is important to use that perspective only as an additional view of the art produced.
Because artists "see" their subject matter from a personal perspective they are never bound to report what they observe in any completely realistic fashion. What the European art of
the timeframe of 1910 to 1939 shows is the deeply conflicted perceptions of a world that appeared to be falling apart. Three artists who worked on their creations during
that period and are well-known throughout the world are Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), and Rene Magritte (1898-1967). Their works clearly reflected the changing cultural attitudes of the time,
while never neglecting a fine attention to his own unique perception of those changes. Modernism The concept of modernism is based on four
principles of Euroethnic art, its appropriate character, its formalism, its self-awareness and its commitment to social content. European art and American art can co-relate on the basis of these principles
of art. Europes turbulent, social and political changes offered (and still offer) suitable conditions for artistic temperament to flourish (Piper 574). The art of Picasso, Matisse, and Magritte demonstrated
the four unique principals noted above. Their art also influenced todays art in ways peculiar to their irreverent dismissal of realism and their exploration of an entirely new way
of presenting their vision. To the extent that this ideological repudiation of political subject matter has prevailed in the international art context, these artists were three painters who usurped the
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