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new objectivity (Ger. Neue Sachlichkeit), German art movement of the 1920s. The chief painters of the movement were George Grosz and Otto Dix, who were sometimes called verists. They created styles of bitter realism and protest that mirrored the disillusionment following World War I. New objectivity retained the intense emotionality of earlier movements in German art (see Brücke Brücke, Die [Ger.,=the bridge], German expressionist art movement, lasting from 1905 to 1913. Influenced by the art of Jugendstil (the German equivalent of art nouveau), Van Gogh, and the primitive sculpture of Africa and the South Seas, the ..... Click the link for more information. and Blaue Reiter Blaue Reiter, der (dĕr blou`ə rī`tər) [Ger.,=the blue rider], German expressionist art movement, lasting from 1911 to 1914. ..... Click the link for more information. ), but it abandoned the symbolism of expressionism expressionism, term used to describe works of art and literature in which the representation of reality is distorted to communicate an inner vision. The expressionist transforms nature rather than imitates it. ..... Click the link for more information. for direct social commentary. Max Beckmann produced works in a related, though more philosophical, vein. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Freedom has been a defining theme of the modern era and, guided by a new objectivity and rationality stimulated by the scientific enlightenment, humanity has been liberated from subjectivity, mysticism, and -- as Nietzsche argued in the nineteenth century -- even God. This new Objectivity software release is certified for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and the AMD Opteron platform in addition to the wide range of platforms currently supported. Objectivity/PQE -- The new Objectivity Parallel Query Engine allows developers to control the amount of local and remote parallelism and optimize the range of a search using user modifiable components. |
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