Why did new art movements develop in the years following world war 1

The years in Europe after World War 1 resulted in an economic and golden age. In the field of art, there was modernism in art where modern art movements formed under the Modernist Umbrella. Some common art movements of the time were: Fauvism by Henre Matisse, Cubism by Pablo Picasso, Futurism which linked humans to machines and vice versa, Vorticism, and constructivism among others.

 As a reaction to the dark years of war and cruel reality

Explanation: The years that followed the First World War were marked by slowness, lack of motivation, grey everyday life, crude reality. Then the coin "Lost Generation" was created, that is, all those young people who participated in the war or grew up during the war. The consequences were visible everywhere in a moral sense. As a reaction to such a state, many artistic directions appear, and one of them is surrealism as a flight from reality. Black humour, cynicism, mocking attitude towards wealthy people, the collapse of ideals, the memory of the bloody trenches of the war are just some of the constantly present topics in art exhibitions or subjects of literary works.