<u>Three strategies that artists began using to make their work more realistic:</u>
The three strategies that artists began to use to make their work more realistic included perspective, representation or impressionism and abstract art.
- Perspective was used as a technique to depict spatial distance as a realistic illusion. In this technique, the closer objects appeared larger whereas the objects that were behind were smaller. The perspective technique took into consideration the distance of the object from the viewer.
- Representation as a technique that depict actual objects from reality. The technique shows objects as they would be seen by a viewer in reality.
- Abstraction is a technique that takes objects from reality but depicts them in a different form thereby triggering the imagination of the artists as well as the viewers.
The military plans laid before World War I presupposed a major war between the countries which were tied together with alliances. Because the Triple Entente had Britain, France and Russia as allies, Germany thought if a war began it would need to fight on two fronts -- west and east. So German Field Marshall Alfred von Schlieffen drew up war plans that said attack France first, quickly, and then hold that territory while deploying forces to contend with Russia in the east. So when Germany declared war on Russia in 1914, the first thing it did was to go and attack France. Thus the war spread and became instantly a more global conflict.
National leaders in politics and the military need to learn caution when dealing with alliances and when committing themselves to military action. Restrained, limited military actions are preferable to the all-out plunging into war that was seen in the outbreak of World War I. Diplomacy should be given its best chance to work before resorting to military options -- even if military options have been pre-planned.
