The Effect of the First World War on European Art

First World War was started in 1914 in Europe, but by getting involved of the colonial states and other states it had great impacts to all countries participating in the war, its' effects are known to last for many years. This war is one of the milestones of Turkish history and also effected involving countries on the political, economic and social issues seems to be cause various changes. Considering of human dimension of what happened in First World War, there are soldiers losing his life in front, crumbling families, people who lost their lives in epidemics, psychological upheaval, missing people, prisoners, migration, refugees. There have been cases including more sad stories from each other. Every event that affects people, gives the same affects to the art which is a human product, this big war had unavoidably affected the visual, aural and literary arts. In this context, it is possible to see the traces of the war in works produced by artists in the war environment in Europe. Artists, reflected the feelings aroused by this global war themselves and created their works to protest or contravene the traditional values as an uprising. 20th century's leading art movements European Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism was gained due to the impact of the war or a taken new perpective. In this study, it's discussed First World War influenced works of the artists involved in art movement was born in Europe and focused on the art movements that occur during this period.