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Old August 5th, 2008, 02:04 PM
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Re: Art & The Great War

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Originally Posted by cyberia View Post

Untitled-George Grosz

A very dark and disturbing post war line drawing by George Grosz, 1936.
A severely crippled war veteran trying to sell wilted flowers to indifferent passersby.

A fate suffered by many who had survived the trenches.
I've seen a similar thing in real life back in 1980. It was an old disabled Italian warveteran that sat pretty much like this n' begged in the street. Touchin'.
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