Analyzing Artistic Responses to War and the Modern WorldUS History ClassworkMr. G.

Name:___________________Directions: Examine the slide of each painting carefully. Then answer each of the questions.

Salvador Dali’s Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man (1943)

1. What colors, shapes, and/or objects are featured in Geopoliticus Child?

2. What three words or phrases can be used to describe the feeling or mood of the painting?1.

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3. In what ways do you think Geopoliticus Child is a response to war and/or the modern world?

Pablo Picasso's Guernica (1937)

1. What colors, shapes, and/or objects are featured in Guernica?

2. What three words or phrases can be used to describe the feeling or mood of the painting?1.

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3. In what ways do you think Guernica is a response to war and/or the modern world?

Thomas Hart Benton’s The Sowers, from Year of Peril, (1941–42)

1. What colors, shapes, and/or objects are featured in the Sowers?

2. What three words or phrases can be used to describe the feeling or mood of the painting?1.

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3. In what ways do you think The Sowers is a response to war and/or the modern world?

Boris Artzybasheff’s The Witch’s Sabbath (1944)

1. What colors, shapes, and/or objects are featured in the Witch’s Sabbath?

2. What three words or phrases can be used to describe the feeling or mood of the painting?1.

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3. In what ways do you think Witch’s Sabbath is a response to war and/or the modern world?

Boris Artzybasheff’s As I See (1941-45)

1.What colors, shapes, and/or objects are featured in As I See?

2. What three words or phrases can be used to describe the feeling or mood of the painting?1.

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3. In what ways do you think As I See is a response to war and/or the modern world?