Adventure of Modern Art: Contemporary Expression

Plot

Artists can serve as a national conscience, especially during times of war. Sorrow, guilt, empathy, depression, desolation, and terror were among the feelings that came out of artworks produced during World War II. Guernica, Picasso's response to the bombing of a village in Spain, is symbolic of the helplessness and rage felt when the Nazis killed 1,600 civilians. German artists fled their country as official disapproval of their works threatened their very existence. The Adventure of Modern Art: Contemporary Expression also looks at the postwar works of Francis Bacon and Edward Kienholz. ~ Alice Day, Rovi

Cast

Andre Parinaud - Narrator; Carlos Vilardebo - Narrator

Credit

Carlos Vilardebo - Director, Andre Parinaud - Screenwriter, Carlos Vilardebo - Screenwriter

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