This artwork was called "War Cripples" and it was made by German Artist Otto Dix, it shows German War Veterans shortly after WW1 returning to their country brutally deformed and disfigured because of the fighting, which also is why the work itself is deformed, unnatural and Avant Garde.
You know what disgusts me though, is that the Nazis considered this degenerate art, they burnt it and only this photograph remains.
Its disgusting really how much European Art and history has been removed because of the Second World War, and how many of that is still lost or perhaps even gone forever.
Isaiah Sanchez
>hmm I can't draw that good >I know I'll call it avant-garde!
Andrew White
>hmm I can't draw that good that's not the case here
Connor Lee
>hmmm I can't paint good >I know! I'll burn the Reichstag and declare war on Europe, call it Avant-Garde!
Henry Richardson
This shit looks retarded and disrespectful though.
Zachary Scott
I'd burn this shitty ass painting too
Isaac Myers
>hmm I'm a retarded leaf >I know I'll call it ironic shitposting!
Jordan Foster
savage
Daniel Cox
well meme'd sir
James Scott
>retarded
precisely, have you seen images of war disfigurements during WW1? And the remedies they had for it?
Look closer, the officer on the far right has an artificial eye, mouth and arm and leg as you can see from the exoskeleton outline.
the guy to the left of him is blind and limbless.
the guy to the left of him is severely burnt and with one leg.
and the guy to the far left has had some severe scaring to the right side of his cheek and is almost completely limbless save from his right arm.
The work shows the brutality of the war the generation of Germany had just suffered, and it also implies the unfairness that was given to them after coming back.
