Connected Forms

Mediums: wood, tempera.
Location: The Tate Modern Gallery (the UK).

The abstract nature of such works as “Connected forms” (sometimes the artist called them related) created in the mid-1930s, lies in the utopic ideas of the European avant-garde. It is generated and associated with increasingly aggravated political conditions on the continent. Dismorr presented her series of meaningless works at the exhibition “The Unity of Artists for Peace, Democracy and Cultural Development”, which was held at Grossner Square in London in September 1937. To a certain extent, this exposition was her response to the Exhibition entitled “Degenerative Art”, where nearly 650 paintings were seized from 32 museums and galleries in Germany, some of the “degenerate” pictures were demonstratively burned.