Otto Dix fought in World War I and while he was in the war he painted many paintings. The painting that is displayed below is called Self-portrait as Mars. In this picuture Dix displays death, he shows horses fleeing and going crazy, buildings and cities bursting in flames and crumbling, and he also displays himself as the God of War. He is the God of War because he survives through all of the fighting and craziness going on throughout the war. In the picture he shows he is God of War by using different ideas from cubism. Cubism is a non-objective way of painting that was developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. This style of painting emphasizes the process of construction and converting the represented forms into different geometric shapes.
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