The piece of art I chose is The Road of the War Prisoners by Vasily Vereshchagin. The picture shows a barren snowy wasteland littered with dead bodies. At first glance, the painting shows that war doesn’t discriminate. War doesn’t care about race, gender or ethnicity. War ravages everybody, as evident by the different body types buried in the rubble. However, at a deeper glance the picture represents the cycle of life. For example, there are birds on top of the pile of dead bodies. Birds tend to represent freedom in paintings. We aren’t bounded to the pain of the past and we need to overcome it in order to become free and truly live in the present. Life still goes on whether or not it may not seem like it. https://www.google.com/search?q=the+road+of+the+war+prisoners&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHqvuX2MbWAhXlqlQKHessAm8Q_AUICigB&biw=1524&bih=957#imgrc=KRX9c6Ul8n-CPM:
