Changes to Society

Question 1

Abstract Expressionism

Answer 1

• feelings drive the artwork
• emotions begin to be expressed in art
• emotional design

Question 2

architecture

Answer 2

• “modern” buildings are built
• abstract buildings and construction
• no more “box” buildings - use creativity

Question 3

ernest hemingway

Answer 3

• the old man and the sea
• real-life emotions and feelings
• fiction that becomes emotional
• deeper thinking - what is the abstract thought behind this writing

Question 4

southern renaissance

Answer 4

• writing/books
• racial issues in the south are written about
• a type of literature

Question 5

polio vaccine

Answer 5

• dr. salk
• polio had hit thousands of children
• vaccine prevents the problem from spreading

Question 6

atomic age

Answer 6

• nuclear fear
• California - starts building swimming pools instead of bomb shelters
• the fear begins to be challenged by society (abstract thinking)

Question 7

remember this…

Answer 7

the 1960s sees the “beatnik” movement begin. “beatniks” are those who do not conform to society in every way. they begin to question why. this is the very early start to the counterculture that will spring up later in the 1960s