Gewonde man
A figure with an open mouth and outstretched arms is a common depiction in the visual arts of the 1940s and 1950s. Photo reportages of the atrocities of the battlefields and Picasso’s famous anti-war painting Guernica had changed the image of war forever. Those who wanted to portray war no longer painted heroic soldiers, but the dead and the wounded victims thereof.
Jaap Mooy