I chose another Otto Dix painting because of all the paintings I've seen while researching WWI art, his show the most passion and true essence of the horrors of WWI. As we already know from class, trench warfare was a big part of fighting in WWI. Many people died and suffered in the trenches and it was an all around gruesome experience. I felt that this picture best displayed the idea of trench warfare. If someone who knows nothing about trench warfare were to see this picture, they would immediately know just how horrible this experience would be. Just by the expression of the person' s face we can tell that he is miserable. His skinny body shows that he was starved and we could also guess dying. This becomes even more sad because most (if not all) cultures have some sort of proper burial rituals for their dead loved ones, whereas, this person in left to die here in the dirt and mud. I find it interesting that Dix chose to do this painting in black and white when so many of his other paintings are full of color. I believe he chose to do this to express the dismal feeling and accentuate the feeling of death. Though we may never know what it really feels like to be suffering in a war like this, we can feel the emotions these people must have felt through artwork like that of Otto Dix.
(http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=128588)
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