Wols: Painting

Here is another painting called Painting, and it was painted around the same time as the painting by Bacon. This painting however, is kind of a mystery to me. It looks like a block of wood. The dark dots could be knots in the wood. However, the orange dots and lines would not be part of the wood. They would have been put there artificially by whoever is cutting the wood. Maybe this is a picture about removing imperfections. The Nazis did this by exterminating those that they did not believe were the perfect examples of the Aryan race. If these knots were removed from the wood, there would be no purpose for this painting. There would be no beauty in the would because it is variety that attracts the eye to the image. Just like it is variety that gives energy and excitement to civilization.