How did two World Wars transform the course of modern art?
From the optimism and experimentation of Art Nouveau, Impressionism and early Modernism to the devastation of the trenches, Dada, Surrealism, Guernica and the rise of Abstract Expressionism, this video explores how war shattered old ideas about beauty, civilisation and progress.
We’ll look at artists including Paul Nash, Otto Dix, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Höch, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock — and discover how artists responded to trauma, political upheaval, destruction and a rapidly changing world.
The World Wars didn’t simply change artistic styles. They changed what art could be — and what artists believed art was for.
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