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The Effect And Aftermath Of World War I

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The effect and aftermath of World War I sparked new artistic movements such as Dada and Surrealism. Though these two movements employ different artistic styles, they share a similar idea of rejection to modern society’s conventions and anti-bourgeois culture. They both celebrate human’s creativity and challenge one’s ability to break out of the traditional norm to create things beyond the ordinary. André Breton’s First Manifesto of Surrealism and Tristan Tzara’s Dada Manifesto 1918 talks about the impact of barriers of traditional conventions it has on the creative process and why one should remove itself from it to discover new art. Breton believes that art is buried in one’s subconscious mind and advocates that there is a need to break out
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