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Grosz was a significant artist and was associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit or the New Objective movement. They where members of Berlin's DADA collective.
After the horrors of World War 1 Grosz decided to focus his art on social critique, he mass published drawings that fitted into DADA's satirical and critical mood. But his style was initially stated to be degenerate , however this later changes due to what he claimed was a loss of faith in humanity. Moving from political propaganda to work that depicted more caricatures of social life in New York.
The main mediums used by Grosz were Pen and ink , also occasionally coloured with watercolour. the images where mass circulates around working class and radical groups- thus allowing the Grosz'z message to travel and reach a more diverse audience , more than a paining hanging in a gallery.
This particular piece by Grosz highlights the divide in the class system. in the background you have the factory / manual workers. Also a man hiding behind a pillar , from what looks like the man patrolling the wall, with have very minimal features and blend into the background. But the man has a walking stick , no hand and is wearing a war uniform, and he looks old too. On the other side of the wall in front is a very wealthy looking man. Who looks well fed compared to the rest of the people in the image, wearing smart cloths and is carrying a brief case , which suggests that he earns a good sum of money. The poorer the class the further back in the image they are and the less obvious they are to spot. Grosz did this intentionally to show societies view of the classes and the influcense the richer class have.
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