George Grosz's dada drawings show, a Jonathan Jones review

Jonathan Jones, journalist in theguardian.com proposes a thesis that places George Grosz’s dada drawing as a breaking part in the history of Art helped by the First World War. We all know about the influences of the war in the vast spectrum of artist, movements and of course, the source of the vanguards. But, while the historic vanguards were doing a relevant change in the way in how art look to itself, creating many new theories, studying structures and imaginaries, the Grozs’s dada works dealt with the form of representing the war process.

Jones write about how the horrors of war impact the context of art, how artists take political decisions in their pieces and, in general, about the change of speech. He takes a particular moment in Grosz work to explain his point, when Grosz exhibited at the Richard Nagy Gallery.

 

This exhibition showed, by the oil painting, how the war changed not just the view of the cities that destroyed the sunken in misery countries, the millions of death, etc. But also the energy moved to the canvas. We can be agreed or not with that thinking, personally I believe that there are so many art’s manifestations before Grosz who takes that topic and that revealed the same things before too.