The document discusses the art of totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany, Stalinist Soviet Union, and Fascist Italy between 1922-1953. It describes how the dictators manipulated art to promote their ideologies and glorify themselves and the state. Art focused on themes like large public works, portraits of leaders, and the idealization of the body. Specific artists and styles endorsed by each regime are also mentioned. The objective was to use art for propaganda purposes rather than individual expression.

1. The art of the
Totalitarism
Lucía Caballero Rubio. 4ºB

2. Index:
 Introduction
 Objetives of the art of the Totalitarism
 Common theme
 Nazi Art
 Stalin Art
 Fascist Art

3. Introduction:
 All the world knows about Fascism, I-II World
War, its weapons, battles, heroes, and of
course its victims…but nobody looks in other
aspects of the society for example the art in
the dictatorships.

4. Introduction:
During the period between 1922 to 1953 Art was
converted in the expression of the ideologies with
propagandistic objectives:
 The art should teach, inform, and inculcate the
ideologies of the State.
 The dictators stimulate art pieces with neoclassic or
realistic style.
 They try to show the nation’s triumphs and the dictators
were myths. The visual art was used to symbolize the
triumph of this ideologies.

5. Objectives
 The individual desire for experiment and
investigate was suppressed.
 Artistic ideal = Racial ideal

6. Common theme:
 Large Public buildings.
 Portraits of the dictators.
 New factories, buildings and highways.
 Big concentrations of mass.
 Glorify the healthy body
 Heroic education
 Death cult

7. Nazi Art

8.  Hitler, when he was young, was a homeless.
 He did a lot of paintings and he sold in the
streets of Viena.
 He liked the opera.

10.  Until the rise of power of National Socialism
in Germany considered modern art, but now
Germany requires a German art again and it
​
must and will be like all creative values of a
new town, a modern art .
( Discourse of Adolf Hitler in the inaguration of
the Gran exhibición del arte alemán, 1937)

11. Arquitecture:
 Big edifices.
 Symmetry and Nazi symbols.

12. Famous architects:
 Albert Speer:
 Hitler wanted to created a new
city,GERMANIA.

13. Famous architects:
Paul Ludwig Troost

14. Painting and sculpture:
 They had obsession by the race.
 The art pieces was found inspiration in the
ancient art.
Arno Brecker

15. New Reich Chancery Gallery

16. Famous artists:
 Josef Thorak
 Georg Kolbe
 Arno Breker ( He was
the favorite painter of
Hitler)
 Udo Wendel
 Adolf Wissel
The Art Journal by Udo Wendel

17. Farm Family from Kahlenberg by Adolf Wissel

18. Aphrodite by Joseph Thorak

19. Cinema:
Leni Riefenstahl produced two films for Hitler:
Olimpia I and Olimpia II
The triumph of the liberty.

20. Photography:
• Hoffman ( He was the
favorite photographer
of Hitler)

21. Graphic desing:
 They used posters,
flags and slogans.
 Symbols:
 Eagle
 Torch
 Swastika

23. Music:
 Richard Wagner
 Carl Off
 Richard Strauss

24. Stalin Art

25. Arquitecture:
 Was called Arquitectura
Gótica Stalinista.
 The proyect was to built
the Soviets Palace.
 Metro of Moscú
 Skycrapers
‘’La arquitctura es una
parte indispensable de
la cultura socialista, el
realismo socialista
exige una arquitectura
verdadera’’ (Stalin)

26. Famous Architects:
 Vladimir Schuko
 Ivan Formin
 Ivan
Vladislavovich
Soldier Monument by Yevgeni
Vuchétich

27. Painting:
 Historic realism
"Rosas para Stalin" - Boris Vladimirski

28. Painters:
 Ivan Brodsky
 Aleksandr Deyneka
 Boris Kustodier
 Isaak Brodsky
 Aleksandre
Guerasimov
mirski
Lenin by I.Brodski.

29. Sculptors:
´´La madre patria llama’’
by Yeugeni Vuchétich

30. Sculptors:
´´Soldier
Monument ``
by Yevgeni
Vuchétich

31. Fascist Art

32. Introduction and objetives:
 The Fascist ideology was transmitted by the
schools, mass media and culture.
 Objetives:
 Heroic realism.
 Advertising

33. Futurism:
 It was a new style created in this period.
 It was found by Marinetti.
 Expressed admiration for modern machines,
and the exaltation of youth, militarism, speed,
war and patriotism.
 Group 7

34. Painters:
 Group 7:
 Marcello Piacentini
 Giuseppe Terragni
 Luigi Moretti Palace of congress by Adalberto
 Angiolo Mazzoni Libera
 Duilio Cambellotti
 Giuseppe Pagano
 Adalberto Libera

35. Sculptors:
 Arturo Martini
 Marcello Piacentini
 Giuseppe Terragni
 Luigi Moretti
 Angiolo Mazzoni

36. Arquitecture:
 Giuseppe Terragni
 Marcello Piacentini
 Giuseppe Terragni
 Luigi Moretti
 Angiolo Mazzoni

37. Palace of the civilization by Marcello Piacentini

38. Cinema:
 Luce institute
 Cineccita studies

39. Bibliographie:
 EL PALACIO DE LOS SOVIETS" de N. Atarov, Ediciones Pueblos Unidos,
Montevideo.
 La estética nazi. Eric Michaud.
 Arquitectura en la era de Stalin. Alex Tarkhanov
 Diccionario critico de mitos Nacismo. Rosa Sala
 Atlas ilustrado del Fascismo.El arte al servicio del poder. Varios autores
 Futurismo. Antonio Fernández García