Art in Axis Countries

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This paper explains that art in pre-War and post-War European Axis countries, in particular Germany, was diametrically different. These differences were largely a result of societal conditions. The paper also explains that pre-War art primarily took the form of propaganda and craft but that after the war, with the exception of Russian art, the art of the Axis countries changed as a result of the influence exerted over them by the west and their own desire to rejoin the brotherhood of nations.

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"The figures in the art, whether supposedly gallery art or poster-propaganda art, were supposed to be admirable 'native' figures of whichever nation was producing the art. The style was supposed to relate, also, to previous artworks, although, "In Soviet Russia, however, the whole notion of the 'aesthetic' was rejected as a bourgeois anachronism and was gradually replaced by the evolving theoretical criteria of Socialist Realism." Images of these works come readily to the mind's eye; almost cartoon like, oversized, over muscled figures in plain clothing operating large machines, for instance. "Triumphant was the Holy Trinity of peasant, worker and warrior. And from the very summit of this blasphemous altarpiece shone down the spirit from which all power was derived: the quasi-divine presence of the Leader himself" (Elliott, 1995), at least in Germany."

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