An Analysis Of George Grosz's 'To Them Peace Is Assured'

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The piece of artwork that I chose was, To Them Peace Is Assured, 1919 by George Grosz. The reasoning behind choosing this piece was twofold: one being that is was a simple piece, I like this because it seems to me that with simple pieces the message behind the work is easier to decipher and the focus of the art is clear and to the point. Secondly the depiction of war is vastly different as you go from one person’s interpretation to another person’s. This is even more so apparent when it comes to the world wars and this piece was drawn during World War 1 and it obviously draws inspiration from that fact. In addition, the fact that the artist George Grosz is of German decent, which is my own decent, I thought it might be interesting to see what someone from my ancestral home thought of war and religion. Concerning the piece of artwork itself there is not a whole lot going on, meaning that there are no …show more content…

One being the hill, the reason I think this is because the hill is guiding the crosses(people) up to the clouds(heaven) and this guidance could be God acting as a liberator of people from their sufferings and leading them up to heaven away from that suffering. On the other hand, God could also be the clouds. Meaning that he is the result from life ending and the only direction for us to go is toward him, up the hill to the clouds, which is possibly where the art got its title from because the crosses are assured to end up with God. One of my more far out there thoughts on this piece is that the crosses starting at the same place is that we all die the same death but depending on what we believe in we end up in total different places. Meaning that the crosses on the right go to hell and the ones on the left go to heaven, I decided which one was heaven and hell by the shading of the art. Overall it doesn’t really matter what I think because my opinion to someone else could mean

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