Transcript An Age of Uncertainty

An Age of Uncertainty
Mr. Owen
World Culture
Spring 2007
World War I Changed It All!
Horrors of World War I shattered the
enlightenment beliefs
Progress would continue
Reason would prevail
People began to fear the future
Expressed doubts about traditional religious
beliefs
Existentialism
Influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche
Return to heroic values
Believed there was no universal meaning in life,
each person gives his or her own meaning to life
through choices made and actions taken
Leaders of this movement
Jean Paul Sartre (SAHR-truh)
Karl Jaspers
Science Challenges Old Ideas
Albert Einstein
Theory of Relativity
1905 theorized that the speed of
light is constant
186,000 miles per second
Space and time changes
This contrasts to Newton’s
Law’s of Motion and Gravity
Math anyone?
186,282 miles per second = Speed of light
186,282 x 60 seconds = miles per minute
11,176,920 miles per minute
11,176,920 x 60 minutes = miles per hour
Which means….
The Speed of light is…
670,616,629 miles per hour!!!!
Sigmund Freud
Austrian Physician
Theories about the human
mind.
Human behavior was irrational
Irrational part of the mind is the
unconscious
His ideas weakened faith in
reason.
Rebellion in the Arts
Expressionist Painters
Wanted to depict the inner world of emotion and
imagination
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Bold colors and exaggerated shapes and forms
Cubism
Transformed natural shapes into geometric shapes
Surrealism
Followed Freud’s theory
Sought to link dreams to real life.
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Surreal = “beyond of above reality”
The Flapper
Young, free woman with new fashions and
attitudes
Smoke cigarettes, drink in public, talking
opening about sex, danced Marriage is an
equal partnership
Double standard
Different standards of behavior for men and
women
Flappers
Flapper Girls
The Persistence of
Memory
Dali
Still Life with Fruit Dish
and Mandolin
Gris
Swans Reflecting
Dali
Woman with a Guitar
Braque
Soft Watch at the Moment
of First Explosion
Dali
Portrait of Picasso
Gris
Soft Construction with
Boiled Beans
Dali
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