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Otto Dix's Definitive Artistic Statement
Otto Dix and his generation had borne witness to the horrors of World War I. They'd also been witness to the death of the nineteenth century faith in an inevitable, unstoppable progress.
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Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change.
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Examine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology.
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Explore light and color in art in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy.
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Explore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature.
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Travel east and west— to Renaissance Italy and the contemporaneous Islamic empires.
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See how art became the great interface when distant cultures met for the first time.
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Consider how religion has inspired art and art has inspired divine representation.
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Explore how we look at the human body in art.
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Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity.