painting

• artists like Otto Dix used distorted imagery and bold colours to critique war, poverty, and inequality. people believed paintings should express meaning and emotion rather than physical reality, causing paintings to become more abstract
• Murals and posters began bringing art into public spaces and to all classes rather than solely in elite art galleries. this as well as the founding of the Bauhaus made art accessible and printmaking allowed art to be reproduced and become much cheaper
• new objectivity movement led by Max Bechmann rejected romanticism and used art to expose the atrocities of urban post-war living