Holocaust Art: "It Takes But One" by Elizabeth Denholm and Alyssa Dziurlaj

What visual techniques are employed in this painting?
In this painting the artist used the colour contrast between red and black, vectors, font choice, focal points, symbolism and facial expressions (the lack of).
How do these visual techniques highlight major thematic elements of holocaust art and literature?
These visual techniques highlight major thematic elements of the holocaust art and literature by using no facial expressions, which emphasizes that in the holocaust, everyone was considered the same and just things, their facial expressions of happy/sad/pain did not matter. Also the vectors of the arm and the dripping paint point us towards the focal points of the main person that's coloured in and also the star of David, the Jewish symbol. The name of the artwork "It takes but one" could mean many things but the way i interpreted this was it only takes one person to stand up or to say something to come out of the shadows of the rest of the population to say no, this is wrong, and it might have made a large impact on the Holocaust. The shadow of the population being the other people in the background. Although it could also mean that it only takes one Jew to do something about the Holocaust, yet i'm sure many tried and got killed. The red at the bottom could also mean many things, happy things like love and hope and compassion, but also bad things like hell and blood. The dripping paint shows us the transportation from the dark black crown and the lonely white crowd with the star of David, the dripping black lines are vectors for the star and they draw us to look at the star and the hand. The hand is something i'm not sure for what its doing, it could be a Jewish hand reaching out for that one person of the German side to actually say something and speak up, the hand is reaching for hope and forgiveness which ties in with the red, but it could also be the hand of a Nazi silencing the Jew trying to speak up. The faded font and the messy font secures this idea of it never happened and its fading away like its not going to happen and the hope for the one to do something is slowing dying away.