... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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