How did aspects of city life, technological and political developments shape their beliefs and artistic innovations?

1.From Degas’s laundresses to the visual poetry of the Italian futurists, from Cubist collage to the photo-collage and assemblage art of the Berlin Dadaists, art’s relationship to society and politics has been central to understanding modernism. To be a modernist artist, “One must be of one’s times,” as Baudelaire put it. Focusing on two artists from the same or different movements, write an essay exploring the connections between their art and the historical moment in which they produced it. How did aspects of city life, technological and political developments shape their beliefs and artistic innovations?Included all material (you can choose which to work with after choosing the two artists and their art movements.)