After World War II Artistic Development

Unemployment was rising, it was a crisis. One difference between European communism that the Soviet Union represented, and Maoist philosophy, was the great industrialization of the Soviet Union. Sympathetic with their cause, millions of workers went out on strike. By the 80s the economies were also facing “increased competition from the Japanese,” and increased production in other parts of the world, in industries they once had dominated.

In 1968 students from Paris universities nearly overthrew the de Gaulle regime.

Arnheim gives us a picture of a painter, but Otero shows us the man behind the paintings, and he is as fascinating as his worked. ” His world policies didn’t necessarily please those at home however, and he was voted out of office in 1964. Education reform did come about, as did welfare and social programs, and reform in the government.

Khrushchev also gave the impression that the Soviet’s were happy with their achievements, and would be foolish to risk any “world conflagration. However, a third party did spring up, the Social Democrats, and government still “seemed to flounder on old divisions. He is a shy man, he doesn’t enjoy the “homage” paid to him. The soldiers found it wasn’t that easy, however, and faced splits among themselves, as well as “raging inflation and declining production. All over the world, students were expressing dissatisfaction with universities, foreign policies, and the war in Southeast Asia. ” He also feels art is not truth, nor is it nature. Originally Otero planned to make a movie, but it didn’t work out, so he assembled his photos and wrote a book about Picasso’s last years.