War trauma and artistic creation

Abstract

This article examines the influence of war experience in the form (not so much in the content) of art. For this purpose it discusses the problem in three different arts: painting, writing and music. And as well three authors, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Maria Remarque and Arnold Schoenberg will be reviewed in the context of a particular military conflagration: the First World War. The conclusion is that the war greatly influences the way we do painting, it moves writing from the metaphorical to the referential and it hardly influences formally the music.