Thursday, 23 January 2014

New brief + research on George Grosz

 
We have recently started a new brief for a 6 week project called "1% inspiration", where we had to choose a theme to work on. The five avalible subjects were: collections, boundaries, city, domestic, book makeover. I decided to work on boundaries, focusing on the more symbolic meaning, looking at social, as well as personal boundaries and exploring their meaning.
To start off, I looked at a German-American artist, George Grosz (1893-1959), who was a draughtsman and a painter. Although he joined the army for a short period of time, he'd spend most of the war in Berlin making ati-war drawings and paintings, also attacking the social corruption of Germany. He played an important role in the Dada movement.


 

 
 
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-grosz-1223

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