social developments 1924-1928 (2)

Question 1

what developments in art?

Answer 1

• promulgated importance of expressionism
• originated in germany early 20th century
• artists such as ernst ludwig kirhcner, george grosz, franz marc

Question 2

what did expressionist painters think?

Answer 2

• works should express meaning or emotion rather than physical reality
• other movements such as neue sachlichkeit argued art should comment on society and be understood by the ordinary, not just favouring the taste of cultural elitism

Question 3

developments in literature
-novelists and poets seemingly adopted a free form style of writing in which they focused on internal mental state rather than external social reality.