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January 23, 2017
How do paintings come to be? (Commission(and for whom), pleasure, etc…”What is the subject? Why is this the subject? How does your eye move across the painting?Why a triptych (memorial for war)? Is it for aesthetics?Picasso is in greyscale, which Dix’s is in color?Why is Guernica depicted inside?
Otto Dix:
Carrying of the cross → the crucifixion (and the entombment) → the resurrectionTrenches, canonsModern Day crucifixionGuts and corpsesSoldiers sleeping, getting ready to wake up and to it again. (bag so rats couldn’t get their food)Loyalty and soldiers, and also soldiers stealing goods from dead soldiers
The trench 1920-23 DEGENERATIVE ART