The industrial revolution and the trauma of World War I shattered traditional views of the world, leading to fractured, abstract styles like Cubism and Dadaism. Art in History. History in Art
Before photography and digital records, art was the primary way to document reality. The industrial revolution and the trauma of World
Works like Goya’s The Third of May 1808 or Picasso’s Guernica act as visceral eyewitness accounts of the horrors of war, capturing the "feeling" of an event better than a dry list of dates. 2. History as the Engine of Art leading to fractured
Genre painting—scenes of everyday life—gives historians insight into the clothing, tools, and social hierarchies of past eras, such as 17th-century Dutch life.