Summary: Observation

This composition appears confusing and chaotic and is not easy to decipher and because of the overlapping and scattered images of humans, animals, and figures in a compressed space makes it difficult to distinguish their boundaries. The painting that is a palette of black, white, gray and some hue yellow. Throughout the painting all of the images are serrated and fragmented with sharp angular lines and movements that appear jumbled together creating a feeling of intense panic, horror, violence, and trepidation.
Starting from the left side of this painting there is what appears to be a women screaming with her head hyperextended back in an exaggerated way holding a limp or dead child with a large bull head directly over top of her head. The it appears that the bull’s body is black with a white tail. Underneath of this women appears to be a wounded or dead man lying on the ground with his left arm spread out to the side and his right arm appears to be amputated with a broken knife still clenched in his right hand. The rest of his body is obscured by other overlapping images of …show more content…
To the right of the composition is three oddly, distorted, shaped people. I can’t tell if they are men or women. To the far right this person has both arms reaching over their head, palms opened and fingers reaching out wide with their head distorted in appearance tilted back, mouth opened, fear on their face. Only from the shoulder up are visible, this person is patruding out of an opening. To the left of this person is two other people, the one towards the top of the painting is only a head and an outreached arm holding a candle lamp. Below this person is the third person hunched over, arms down to their sides with long neck, head tilted looking up to the light fixture on the ceiling or the candle lamp held by the outreached arm overhead. There is terror and agony in every expression throughout this