The Massacre of the Innocents

The mad horror that thrusts the protagonists of the massacre, victims and persecutors alike, into a grotesque tangle of bestial passions justifies all the stylistic exaggerations: the transitions between solids and voids are abrupt and dissonant, the deformation brutal, every rule of proportion totally ignored, the modelling corroded and emaciated; and over all looms a tumultuous, piercing anxiety.