It was there that he experienced the true horrors of war, which was a main catalyst on his art and allowing him to make emotionally moving pieces of artwork eventually recognized as "perhaps the most powerful as well as the most unpleasant anti-war statements in modern art."
"Wounded soldier" appeared ten years after the First World War began, Dix's work doesn't glorify World War I nor heroizes its soldiers but reveals the unbelievably horrible realities experienced by people who were there.
Otto Dix used dark colors to heighten the emotional and realistic effects of his images of horror. In the art piece "Wounded soldier" you can clearly see ghastly white bones, leaving white spots which show flesh.
One of the characteristics of Postmodernism is that authority is dangerous and we cannot trust it. Since government almost always glorifies war as "something that is needed", people need to see how harsh and cruel wars are. Truth is relative and we cannot just believe our government without thinking.
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