One of the most impressive works that inspired my practice is the Wounded Veteran (1922) by Otto Dix. The image below was drawing on gory images of real human facial wounds, the painting distills a drawing of a man badly wounded in World War I. It depicts, with delicacy and skill, the left-hand of a man's face in pencil, and a delicate use of watercolor to show the horrific wound on his on the right side of his face. The shirt is painted with the same delicate watercolor that describes the wound Lady with brain by Maria Lassnig also provided me with painting forms and the techniques that I could use for my improvement.

 

The method that Otto Dix used improved my accomplishment of the advance art work,. According to Miller (1987), the major painting skills of Otto Dix technique is “wet into wet” and the layering or glaze. The difference between these two methods was the thickness and thin of the oil painting on onefold and multiple layers, the former saves more time for me and the latter increase the color plumpness and brightness. I used them both on my later works.

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Barry, C. (2010). Vanitas and the dialectical image in the art of Otto Dix (Doctoral dissertation, Texas Christian University).

 

Dix, O. Wounded Veteran (1922)

Miller, B. F. (1987). Otto Dix and his oil-tempera technique. The bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 74(8), 332-355