1915, Otto Dix, Lament -- Courtauld Gallery (London)
From the museum label: Otto Dix is usually associated with the cool precision of the artistic movement New Objectivity rather than this jagged form of Expressionism. The inscription is from the Bible, Psalm 137: 'They sat by the waters of Babylon and wept. And had their harps hanging on the willows.' Dix depicts the naked women contorted in anguish, their distress made visceral by his aggressive pen marks, scored deep into the paper. Lament can be linked to his painting Battle of the Amazons (1913) with its theme of sexualised violence that reappeared in his 'lust murder' paintings of the 1920s.
1915, Otto Dix, Lament -- Courtauld Gallery (London)
From the museum label: Otto Dix is usually associated with the cool precision of the artistic movement New Objectivity rather than this jagged form of Expressionism. The inscription is from the Bible, Psalm 137: 'They sat by the waters of Babylon and wept. And had their harps hanging on the willows.' Dix depicts the naked women contorted in anguish, their distress made visceral by his aggressive pen marks, scored deep into the paper. Lament can be linked to his painting Battle of the Amazons (1913) with its theme of sexualised violence that reappeared in his 'lust murder' paintings of the 1920s.