Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," from 1937, is a monumental black, white, and grey oil painting depicting the suffer caused by the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The painting features fragmented figures; a gored…
This 1915 piece by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is an Expressionist oil painting depicting the artist in his studio, rather than on a battlefield. He wears his military uniform, but his right arm is a bloody stump, symbolizing the emotional and potentially…