The Face of War

The Face of War by Salvador Dali -1940

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Face_of_War

Depicting war through art can provide a different view of what we hear

or see on the news.

War is an uncreative act.

There is nothing about it that helps humanity.

Words are inadequate to reveal the horrors of it.

Many artists have shown the traumas and hardships of war. 

These paintings did not glorify war as was the custom. 

Here are a two of them.

Käthe Kollwitz-

a German artist who lived through two world wars. 

Die Mütter [The Mothers], 1922, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Kollwitz

The Parents, sheet 3 of the series »War«, 1921/1922

Woodcut, Kn 174 V c https://www.kollwitz.de/en/sheet-3-the-parents

 

Guernica by Pable Picasso 1937 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)

Guernica was a Spanish town that was bombed around World War 2.

It depicts the suffering of innocent people.

 

This week is Disarmament Week according to the United Nations.

The UN was established October 24, 1945.

77 years have passed. We continue to hope for a more peaceful world

and we will remember the victims of war.