Home/Symbols/Banded throat / collar-like stripesBanded throat / collar-like stripes SymbolismConstraint and voicelessness; grief as pressure around the body rather than free expression.Common ThemesLoss, grief, and consolationMimesis vs. abstraction (truth vs. artifice)The double/doppelgängerWar & conflictChristian iconographyGrief & mourningArtworks Featuring This SymbolThe Weeping WomanPablo Picasso (1937)Picasso’s The Weeping Woman turns private mourning into a public, <strong>iconic emblem of civilian grief</strong>. Shattered planes, <strong>acidic greens and purples</strong>, and jewel-like tears force the viewer to feel the fracture of perception that follows trauma <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
