Otto Dix and His Notable Paintings Relating to European Social and Political Art of the 20th Century Era
Write a topic research paper about Otto Dix and he’s most notable paintings relating to European Social and Political Art of the 20th Century era.
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PROMPT:
Write a topic research paper about Otto Dix and he’s most notable paintings relating to European Social and Political Art of the 20th Century era.
For simplicity, I have wrote a research proposal that covers all the necessary topics in the research paper specially the following paintings by Otto Dix.
- Seven Deadly Sins (1933)
- Skat Players (Card-Playing War Cripples) (1920)
- The War (1929-32)
Please read this proposal and greatly expand on it.
Proposal:
This research paper is about Otto Dix and his most notable paintings relating to European Social and Political Art of the 20th Century era. What makes Otto Dix a phenomenal artist is how he projected his voice through his paintings. This was a very rare case during that time and it is still important till this day. This was an extremely important era across the world and through out history which included World War 1, World War 2 and most importantly the involvement of Germany. During these time is when many artists such as Otto Dix and George Grosz careers were born, and the Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity movement began. Otto Dix is known to be one of the most important artists of The New Objectivity movement. Some of the art pieces that I will be researching in this paper are, Seven Deadly Sins (1933), This is a very creative and detailed painting about the true fears of the war and Adolf Hitler. At the time of painting he did not fully draw Hitler out of fear but once the war was over he went back to his painting and finished it by drawing in the Hitler mustache. Skat Players (Card-Playing War Cripples) (1920), this painting was about the veterans of the war. It showed what the war was about and who was truly behind the scene and it exploited their true intentions. The War (1929-32). This paining is all about the aftermath of the war and what it had caused. Although Dix has many beautiful and meaningful paintings I believe these are some of the most important ones relating to the living situations and society of that era.
Sources:
At least 6 sources are required, and feel free to use the ones listed below.
Paul Fox; Confronting Postwar Shame in Weimar Germany: Trauma, Heroism and the War Art of Otto Dix, Oxford Art Journal, Volume 29, Issue 2, 1 June 2006, Pages 247–267,
Abrams, Amah-Rose. “Otto Dix: An Artists Life Shaped By War.” Artnet News, Artnet News, 30 Nov. 2015, news.artnet.com/art-world/
“Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) Movement Overview.” The Art Story, 1 Dec. 2015, www.theartstory.org/movement-
Jeffrey Fulmer. “Home.” Otto Dix, 2015, www.ottodix.org/.
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Otto Dix and His Notable Paintings Relating to European Social and Political Art of the 20th Century Era
Otto Dix is one of the artists who represented the new objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) following a high level of corruption in the Weimer Republic coupled with the entrance of new freedoms. The commitment was to share the objective truth underlying the contemporary ills (Neue Sachlichkeit, 1). The author is specifically remembered as a painter and printmaker in an unforgiving depiction of Weimer society and the Great War (Jeffrey Fulmer, 1). Having lived through and fought in both world wars, Otto Dix shares the experiences of front-line wars and post-war society. At the time the New Objectivity Movement was at the time viewed as an Americanized way of thinking. The author experiences in battle were the subject of his work with a satirical expression of a post-war Germany. Following the nature of his artworks, Otto Dix faced threats to stop social and political art only allowed to paint decorative landscapes (Abrams, Amah-Rose, 3). However, despite these challenges that included being sacked from Dresden Academy Otto Dix still managed…
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