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... a painting. The artist is Otto Dix. The painting is entitled 'Big City.' From the title, it can't be worked out what the painting is about. This painting is made up of three pictures, which should be shown together. The first picture is about high-class, urban people going to a party. In the painting, the people pass a man begging on the streets, he also has no legs. The high-class people just ignore him and walk past. In the middle picture, there is a party going on, everyone is high-class with cutting edge fashion. They are all enjoying themselves, men are dancing with women and they don't have a care in the world. The last picture shows a dead man and a man with no legs. The people coming home from the party don't care about them and again just ignore them. This painting shows both sides of life in ...
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