: How did ww2 affect arts of Britain and Germany?

World War II had an even more profound impact than World War I on people's ideas about themselves and their place in the universe. The terrible fact of the atom bomb's existence shook their sense of stability. The postwar threat of the spread of Communism brought to attention the dangers to individual freedoms in a totalitarian state.

Many artists used music as an outlet to vent the frustration associated with the war or as a means of escape from its horrible brutality.

Many different types of music began after World War II,

produce a literary response equal to that of the First World War.

The Second World War has remained a theme in British literature.

hough some have seen modernism ending by around 1939,

t to an end an era of great intellectual and creative exuberance

rationing of paper affected the production of magazines and books;

was produced by established writers.

After the war most English writers chose to focus on aesthetic or social rather than political problems;

more than just simple entertainment.

marching songs,

protest

music distributed during World War I greatly influenced social and political attitudes, thereby serving as an effective propaganda tool for private citizens and governments.

Music permeates the spirit in ways that written words alone cannot do.

rought into play through the power of music,

In the 1920s and 1930s visual arts in England had been flourishing, much in exchange with a vibrant European art scene

With the onset of the Second World War in September 1939 this open creative sphere was disrupted.

The attention of artists shifted to the events of the war and patriotic duty

Some of the artworks have been classics of the propaganda poster genre, like the “Careless talk costs lives” posters from the campaign against sharing sensitive information with civilians (especially dangerous blondes).

dramatic war scenes

Then there are the symbolic illustrations, like the proud Aslan-like lion representing England

During the Second World War, the British government took a more structured approach to collecting official war art than it had during the First World War.

what lay on the near side of World War I is Modernism,

Modernism took shape decades before World War I, but its clamorous arrival was vastly accelerated by the greatest collective trauma in history to that point.

World War I reshaped the notion of what art is, just as it forever altered the perception of what war is.

British official war artists were a select group of artists who were employed on contract, or commissioned to produce specific works during the First World War, the Second World War and select military actions in the post-war period.

for information or propaganda purposes and to record events on the battlefield;

A war artist creates a visual account of war by showing its impact as men and women are shown waiting, preparing, fighting, suffering, celebrating,

disillusionment as representative of the views of most soldiers who fought in the war. 

The "music of WW2" includes Big Band, Swing, dance music, ballads, romantic songs, and other genres.

self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse.

"Make it new."

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Adolph Hitler did not plan a career in politics when he moved to Vienna in 1908. His great dream at that time was to devote his life to art...either as a painter, a theatrical designer or an architect.