Between the Wars: Science, Art, and Culture

After watching presentations about the science, art, and culture between WWI and WWII all last week, I noticed some recurring trends in various fields. For example, I noticed the in the sciences and philosophy, personalities such as Freud and Nietzsche began to explore the human psyche and analyze what drives men to act as they do. Similarly, surrealists such as DITali built off of Freud's theories to paint what he perceived as the newly a named subconscious. In the arts, it was a period of revolt against classical theories of painting with even the now respected Impressionist such as Monet and Cezanne exploring a new way of seeing the world. With the advent of Dadaism in art and comedic silent films, escapism was created as a genre. This idea is still a driving force in today's Hollywood. It seems to me that this period was a new age of discovery with an emphasis not on foreign lands or new technology but instead on the human mind.