The avant -garde of the twentieth century
In the Germany of 1919 one of the most efficient forms of democratic government was born in the century, because of the end of the First World War that promoted the creation of a new Constitution that was called Weimar;However, there was disagreement due to the economic situation of the country that coerced rejection of the classes that passed for a complicated moment in which fascism arose throughout Europe, so it was only afloat until 1933. Following these facts, the revolution was rapid and the Reich II is stabilized, establishing the Nazi regime with an extremist order of tragic consequences for the country and world balance.
Hitler directly attacks art, eradicating avant -garde aesthetic predominant;The repression that works are burned, their sale was burned, regional and state arts collections were burned, and many artists are persecuted, also the Bauhaus School of Arts, it was closed.
Another scenario in which the artist develops from which we are going to deepen the essay is Argentina;The photograph there took shape due to contributions made by experts on the subject that arrived in the territory in the second half of the 19th century. (Incorvia, 2012). At the beginning of the 20th century there was a change in the political sphere that generated dismissals and from it, there is an important change in visual arts because cinema, graphics and photography – collectively – transmit the dissemination of the dissemination ofcustoms, day to day and social inequalities in 1920 the avant -garde stimulate the talk of a certain parallelism between the modernity of arts and film modernity. In addition, to put ourselves in general female context, there was a machismo still very marked in art everywhere in the world.
A woman with a magnificent genius who knew how to reflect individual feelings in a collective attaché. In 1929 with a friend, he formed a study called Ringl + PIT, where he won several international awards, which, the advertised photos in that study were original by the techniques used of composition, which with subtle irony changed the vision of femineitywrong that spread in several advertisements. In 1932 he entered Dessau’s Bauhaus and by chance of fate he knows his future husband, the Argentine photographer Horacio Coppola, with whom, emigrates to England and later Argentina, for his status as a Jewish and anti -fascist artist, as she declared himself.
In 1935 he contracted nuptials with Horacio, and in this same year he suffered his mother’s suicide for the social situation of Germany, which drives her to carry out more works with this issue and expose them with many others during her first trip to the country of whichHer husband was originally;This would be considered the first modern photography sample. He had two daughters and divorced after some years, acquiring female empowerment.
In 1948, Idilio magazine seeks to make a section called psychoanalysis will help it, in which the dreams counted by other women begin to interpret it, these are their best known works and show how their work correspond to the avant -garde of theSurrealism, an artistic movement that surpassed the real, entering the psychic world, dreams, the imaginary and the irrational during all the time in which he lived portraying, dying in 1999 in Buenos Aires.
To talk about your technique, it is essential. Various authors speak the autonomous use of an original tool, such as photographic susceptibility for the reorganization of the real;using the narrative component with photographs cuts about other. In its editions of ‘’ dreams ’’ is continuity of textures and surfaces, giving a given touch to the works, with artificial equality. First he drew pencil a sketch, he says (Lotito, 2011) in which he organized the objects of the composition;He looked for funds to which they have a different texture and finally admitted to protagonists by placing them between glass sustained.
In the photo that was chosen ‘’ the dreams of mirror ’’ the “Silver Gelatinobromuro technique on conglomerate paper” stands out and to enter the form, a utopian touch is observed in the mode of the surrealists. It gives its works different forms that in photography can be constituted as a new and different element, where the photographic image abandons the similarity to seek its own identity, with everyday objects reflecting simulations of its main functions, such as the case of the face with an expression of expression ofStarf, which in the mirror is reflected several times, creating a non -real look. The clothing that is used in several of his works are of the time but enhances the female figure and the objects are distorted by the angles used, Stern chose the use of photomontage for idyll because it allowed him to join elements that were not used together. Master effects of lights, shadows and contrasts, seized the first and second planes.
Regarding the substance of the work already mentioned ‘’ The dreams of mirror ’’, focus on the reality of a woman forced to be home, wrapped in invisibility and routine dominated by a male figure. These patterns are repeated in the author’s works, because they all have anguish and suffering in common. There is also a critical purpose warns (Lotito, 2011) "… towards the orders that co -struck the role of the new woman in the gestation of the mass society". However, what surprises the most of this great artist is his ability to distribute cynicism in all his presentations, he makes the suffocation of Latin America that fight for his personal ideals from an eat and/or burlesque aspect crudely show.
Finally, having analyzed all aspects of life and characteristics of Grete Stern’s works, it canThe bourgeois women of the twentieth century. On the other hand, their works attract great interest and ask for a deep reflection to those who visualize them, with the desire to interpret different realities.
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