2. On your sheets write down your first impression of
the painting below
3. Title: Stormtroops advancing under a gas attack
Year: 1924
Description: The scene is other worldly as gas clouds the atmosphere.
Their features are obscured by masks and their fingers are curled like
claws. These are men who will kill by any means. But are they men?
4. Dix was a veteran of the First World War. He was
haunted by the brutality of mechanized warfare
long after the guns fell silent. Through his art, he
returns to the desolated landscape of military
trenches strewn with mutilated bodies. The dead
are distorted by decomposition. Human
characteristics are indistinguishable in gas
masks and steel helmets.
5. Otto Dix
Objectives
To use knowledge gained of otto dix work
to influence your own visual practise
Outcomes
Produced a mono print of the Otto Dix
painting Stormtroops advancing under a
gas attack
Produce a self portrait that shows a clear
link to Dix’s work
6. Todays task
Create your own version of the picture using
mono printing
Success criteria
The image must have dark tones
Clear defined marks
Multiple marks recorded in the image
A sense of menace and distortion
7. Portrait - extention task
Using the portrait that you created last
week interpret your portrait in a otto dix
style.
8. Peer Assessment
How successful have they been use the
criteria to give your opinion of the work and
who you think they could improve it.
