Degenerate Art

 Degenerate Art- 1993 David Grubin ‘Entartete Kunst’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QE4Ld1mkoM 

 Degenerate - Deviant from the norm?

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 The Nazis vs Expressionism. Expressionism- Painting the world underneath the real world.

The Nazis vs Expressionism 

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Are you a Degenerate Artist? Yes? Good. This suggests your work fails to reach the physical, mental and moral qualities considered normal and desirable. from furtunecatproductions.com Fig3

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 I wanted to make a work that reflects Expressionism Fig4,8,9 its a work in progress. Called
 'Golly What' Inspired by the controversial 'Golliwog'

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Hitle,Goebbles and other Nazi officials get a tour of the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich in 1937, Photograph: Alamy from http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/nov/04/munich-hoard-lost-art-nazis

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 Fig6 Oskar Kokoshka self_portrait of a Degenerate Artist 

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Fig7 Degenerate Art- 1993 David Grubin ‘Entartete Kunst’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QE4Ld1mkoM 

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Portrait of the journalist Sylvia Von Harden (1926) by Otto Dix. Labelled “Entartete Kunst” By the Nazi Fig10 from Neil Collins article: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/degenerate-art.htm 

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Fig11 artist Paul Klee was considered a degenerate artist, The Expressionism Art experimented with strong colours and did not reflect a likeness to real life.

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More bizarrely Fig12 by Emil Nodle Who coined the word Degenerate in art and was one of the first Artist to sign up to the Nazi part But fell from grace and his own work was implicated in the degenerate art hated by the Nazi...
http://www.moma.org/collection_ge/artist.php?artist_id=4327