The
works discussed are all paintings done by white men. They were painted in France in 1793, France
in 1905, and in Germany in 1923, respectively. They represent, for Jacques Louis David,
Neoclassicism; Henri Matisse, Fauvism; and Wassily Kandinsky, Abstraction. David painted in an
exaggeratedly realist style, looking back to Roman traditions. Matisse was part of a group of
artists that moves away from Impressionism toward Cubism and Abstraction. Kandinsky, originally
from Russia, was part of the Bauhaus School, which was ejected from Nazi Germany for its
supposed decadence. As World War II completely disrupted the European art world, with many
artists fleeing the violence and persecution, two possible directions suggest possible next
works in this sequence.
Pablo Picassos Guernica , 1937,
expressed his reaction to the Germany destruction of a city in his native Spain. It is important
as a magnificent, huge composition and as the primary anti-war statement of the twentieth
century....
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