Art Tendencies: A Rejection Of The Dehumanizing Experience

Name Course Instructor Date Art Tendencies The two tendencies that explore the history of art have tried as much to portray a rejection of the dehumanizing experience that was common in the modern arts. In the first tendency, Paul Gauguins 1897 piece of art “Where did we come from? Where are we going?” implies his strong fight against the dehumanizing forces of modernism. First, he uses a title for the art to communicate to the viewer and challenge the thinking of the viewer on how the human race came to be what it is in the modern world. In the art, men, women and children are seated in one house with majority of them covering only their private parts. The elderly and the young are seated half naked and nobody is bothered about the way they appear. This was a common dressing code in the old days when people used to wear skin from animals to hide their private parts only. The other work of Gauguin is the 1898 “The White” in which Gauguin has drawn horses carrying people along the river banks. The horses were the most common mode of transport used in the old days and this emphasizes further his strong believe in history and his opposition to modernism. Any modern person who views his piece of artwork is likely to connect with the old days when there was no much advancement compared to the modern world. The other artist in the first tendency who has shown protest to modernism is Kandinsky who is regarded as the pioneer of abstract expressionism. He is among the most outstanding in his ability to combine color and form to convey deeper themes that connect with the audience. His common paintings “Composition IV” of 1911 stands out with its bright swaths of color and clear black lines with boats and a castle of a hilltop (The Art History Org, n.d). His drawing of boats not only emphasizes the rejection of modernism but also indicates the time of the artwork. Through this paining he successfully communicated the theme of battle that he had foreseen would come during the First World War. The use of the flawless combination of colors in swirling manner conveyed the theme of the battle to the public before it could come later in...