Movies of Expressionism

In the two movies, the following is what they have in common:

1.Both of the main characters in each movie are well educated men, who hold a professional role in society that people admire.
2. The scenery for both films are in places that are for entertainment, where people go for the irrational. Something that society is against as a whole but it is so different or interesting that you can help but get into it.
3.They both are looking for something that is unusual, it's comparing rational to irrational behavior in society. They want to see how people react to their findings and will it give them the result they want during their research.For example Dr. Caligari wanted to use a mental patient to see if he could control him under a spell to do thing that shouldn't be done in society, also behavior that was sought out as bad in society.While Rath wanted to visit lola to see what she did in her atmosphere that made people so interested in her style, he wanted to be there .

All of these symbols from these two movies represent expressionism due to the fact that they are looking outside of the box. In both movies the characters are looking for someone and something that is irrational. They want to explore these finding so that they can breakdown what it means and why it came about.
When these characters do work through expressionism its  to make u explore your thoughts and what is the goal of the creator

What interest me in this class

What I find interesting in this class is the art work and how it is interpreted in a different light. I like that in art you can make the image how you see it expressed through your own eyes. When you look at art and the way the artist express his feeling or understanding of what this image mean to them. Art is like looking at the artist soul because they are giving you their most inner thoughts and emotions.

Meaning of Passage

Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness. Slowly this blossomed in him, was shining back at him from Vasudeva's old, childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, smiling, onenessledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal 


This passage means that a individual is trying to find themselve. This is when a individual wants to look within themselves and find what makes them want to live and strive to do more. It gives someone meaning in their life, so they can have purpose of why they are here on earth. Before someone leave this earth they want to know if they made a difference or an impact on the earth while they were here.


I pick this passage because it had a deep meaning of why someone would go on journeys to find their meaning in life. Everyone has to search to find themselves and know who they are as a person. Every individual has their own journey or path they must follow to bring themself happiness.

Germany Interpretations: Quiz 1

Germany Interpretations: Quiz 1: 1. Nihilism is meaningless due to the fact that the meaning is what you see and feel. So its not meaningless because each individual will gi...

Quiz 1

1. Nihilism is meaningless due to the fact that the meaning is what you see and feel. So its not meaningless because each individual will give its own person meaning or feel.
2. The difference between Roman and Christian is that , the Roman were more in touch with the earth and how events were happening with the people and Christian lived the way god intended for people to live.
3. His style was expressionism and trends of Italy
4.He has 2 jobs, one at the carnival and a man the people come to as a wise man
5.Siddharta left his father because he felt that it was nothing left that his father could teach him, so he went to explore to further the meaning of life experiences.
6. His master puts him to sleep with a spell.
7. The River is important due to the fact that it helped him on his journey to explore his life experiences and the meaning of it all.It gave him a feeling of oneness with the earth and all of its aspects to experience in life.

Dada: Otto Dix

Otto Dix  was born December  on 2, 1891 to Franz and Pauline Dix. He inherited his fathers character also his blue eyes  along his mothers interest for music plus poetry. Otto early  training began in 1909 at Dresden Academy of Fine Art,the first time he showed his talent of drawing was at the age of 10 years old. Otto also modeled for a painter who influenced him to become a painter himself. He was influenced by expressionism and Dada for the artistic drawings of his paintings. The trends of Italy  as well as France for more realistic imagery were also shown in his drawing. When Otto got older he volunteered for World War, which made a huge impact on his painting. He also did controversial social themes, but later was drawn to christian and landscape influences

Title of 1st painting: THE WAR (1929-32)

This painting is expressing how he viewed his experience in the war. It shows the soldiers on the battlefield and all the trauma or tragedies that was going on during World War I.This art express the conflict that the soldiers encountered on and off the battlefield.

Title of 2nd painting: THE SKAT PLAYERS(1920)

This piece of Art is part of Dada and Cubist influence upon Otto work that he created. This picture shows the soldiers after the war and how the were injured or disfigured, but still were able to play cards for there leisure or enjoyment.

 

Title of 3rd painting: UNKOWN

This painting is of the women Otto seen during his time in the War. It also shows how men pictured these women of this time and era. The women are probably women of leisure time and entertained men of war.

Overall I like how he expressed himself in his work. I was also interested in what he used as his subjects, he would do controversial social aspects that made people think outside the box. He wanted the public to  address the problems at hand so that they can start to resolve the problems or just keep it from being out in the open for all society .