... , by Adolph Wissel, portrays a warm situation of a family relaxing, most probably after a working day in the field. It is an art that can be accepted by anybody that watches the painting, that the D. Duchamp would name retinal art, because it is an aesthetically motivated and stylistically anti-modernist piece. The warm colors are attractive, in order to highlight the peacefulness of ... by equating Hitler with the righteousness of God, and construct a pseudo-religion to be followed without question. Hitler as a superior being is also illustrated in Lanzinger's "The Flag Bearer". The pai...

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... and in their minds it was for purification as well, but everyone else seen it as horrifying destruction. Anselm Kiefer created this painting in between the 1970's and 1980's. He himself a German, demonstrates the darkness of the holocaust in this piece of art. The ... Painting shows a hall that leads to a furnace door. The painting uses a good form of visual perspective. The vertical lines of the flooring tile lead you to the door, where as the horizontal ... well. The lighter grays and other colors are up in the front of the painting, where as, the further back the painting goes the da...

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... Nordic race, the need for loyalty and obedience and the invulnerability of the German nation. Images of the Nordic peasant endorsed a return to a pre-industrial idyllic rural Germany. The oil painting "Kalenberg Farm Family", by Adolf Wissel, depicts an intimate domestic situation of a family relaxing, presumably after a day of "working the land", in a tranquil natural setting. It is an easily ... by equating Hitler with the righteousness of God, and construct a pseudo-religion to be followed without question. Hitler as a superior being is also illustrated in Lanzinger's "The Flag Beare...

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... their negotiations Franco demanded that in any postwar settlement he wanted control of Gibraltar, French Morocco, a portion of Algeria and parts of Africa. In the painting by Picasso, the outcome of the city of Guernica is displayed with many different symbols and meanings. It explains who was in charge of the operation ... of showing planes, bombs and death. A terror of bulls was used as one symbol. Another was of a horse's head. This was a large section of the painting. Picasso also made a contrast between light and dark and he showed chaos. A third symbol was of a tongue. It was diffe...

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... took a trip to Vienna where he decided to attend the prestigious Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In October of 1907, at the age of 18, Adolf took the two-day painting school entrance exam of which he failed, and because he did not have a high school diploma he could not attend the academy's architectural school either ("The Rise of Hitler"). "I was ... 's Boyhood). During those years of misery and absence of money, he had to earn a meager living as an unskilled laborer. He was eventually able to work on his own by painting watercolors and selling them to Jewish merchants (David 7). The year...

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... his beloved brother. When he came of the age of career choosing, Adolf wanted to pursue art. In his recent years of school, he became increasingly interested in drawing and painting. Adolf's father had always wanted him to pursue a technical or engineering career. So when Adolf broke the news that he wanted to pursue art to his father, it resulted in ... ...

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... with a lung infection and was forced to drop out of school. After his illness was cured, he then applied to the Vienna Academy of Arts hoping to start a career in painting. Hitler took the admission test and passed it, but when it came down to submitting a piece of art, Hitler's watercolor was rejected. Adolf was rejected from the academy and felt ... ...

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... time he was twenty-one, Hitler was almost penniless, and was forced to live in a shelter with homeless men. On the odd occasion he made money from drawing sketches or painting scenes of Vienna, but he refused to look for a settled job. But by 1910 he began to show an interest in politics and often spent hours in Vienna's public libraries ... ...

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... was nothing good in war. This belief is what labeled him a degenerate, and made rightist leaders such as Hitler hate him. Leaving the military, he began experimenting in Expressionism. Expressionist painting in its ideal is abstract, ignoring the surface and reveal the hidden truth of something. An expressionist exclaimed: "We believe that our first duty is to dedicate all our energies ... ...

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... parties except for Mussolini's beliefs. He also added slogans like "Mussolini Is Always Right" to control the people. Nazis supervised the people that made the press, broadcasting, literature, drama, music, painting, and film. Hitler and Mussolini made lots of different strategies to weaken the people and give themselves more power. Only by looking at the despair and gloom in these governments ... ...

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... this his mother died. Adolf then decided to stay in Vienna and become an artist. He applied one more at the academy and was again turned down. He spent a year painting pictures to show the academy. His application was again turned down. More and more his talent for architecture was beginning to show. However since he was lacking a high school education ... ...

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... beating rugs instead of getting a regular job. Since he had no set income he was forced to move into the ghettos and became somewhat of a bum. He finally got a job painting postcards and advertisements. He had little money still, and spent most his time reading and thinking about what he read. While Hitler was in Vienna, he learned things which he ... ...

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... 1919 and 1923. German culture began to change and progress. Many new cultures started to emerge, like jazz, art, music and opera and the theatre. In art, a new form of painting developed (expressionism) with the emphasis on social comment. In the theatre, a new school of theatre developed, which included new techniques, like actors sitting on the toilet, and it also conveyed ... ...

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... 's role in the world, Hitler, "would sit enraptured and often on the verge of tears"(Encarta). When Hitler's father died when he was thirteen he began to experiment with watercolor painting but did not achieve much. Being rejected by the Academy of Arts in Vienna as untalented, Hitler then struggled as a laborer in the building trades and painted cheap postcards for ... ...

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... fascism. Thousands volunteered from around the world to join the International Brigades and to defend the Second Republic, including famous writers such as George Orwell. Picasso produced his famed Guernica painting to highlight the horrific bombing by Franco and his Nazi sponsors of the infamous town(Spanish). The chaotic instability of the nation was brought about by a variety of factors, most ... ...

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... time, he was living in homeless shelters and standing in line at soup kitchens. He refused to take regular employment so ha had several odd jobs. One of these was painting advertisements on postcards. After this he completely isolated himself from his family and friends. He began to wander throughout he streets of Vienna. Still, he continued to keep up on ... ...

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... system and left formal education behind him. He then proceeded to spend two years in Linz with his mother carrying out an aimless existence and filling his time by reading, painting, wandering in the woods and dreaming of becoming a famous artist. In 1907 Hitler's mother died and he moved out of his hometown Linz to Vienna, the capital of the Austria ... ...

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... . He moved to Linz, Austria in 1907 to go to the Academy of Fine Arts. He would soon be disappointed to find that the paintings he submitted for the academy's painting exam were labeled unsatisfactory and that he would not be admitted (Stalcup 33-34). Not even three months after being rejected from the fine arts academy fate yet again dealt ... ...

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