what was art like in 1945 -55 after WW2?

Answer 1

It was generally very `abstract`, much like the work Picasso was doing pre-war, only everyone was having a go at it with various levels of success. No one painted a dog that looked like a dog etc. Art became the fashionable thing to study at college and the students used to hang out in cafes called `expresso bars. The girls had their hair in pony tails and wore black ballerina shoes ,sweaters and jeans, black horned rim spectacles were the in thing. The guys wore scruffy sweaters,jeans and ex-navy duffel coats.They would buy one cup of coffee and sit there for several hours. Of course the `grown ups` thought their dress sense and their work to be" absolutely appalling". The young did not want realism, there was enough of that from the war and then for them when they were 18yrs. old and had to go into the army or R.A.F. to do their national service.They were going to make a new world where there would never again be war............

Answer 2

Ask Hermann Goering. He pillaged Holland and other countries of their Art up to 1945.

Answer 3

It went further away from realism. The effect of the war did some crazy things.