[2] The painting depicts the ravages war in a scene that "embodies recurrent themes of carnage, suffering and the disintegration of humanity.
The focal point appears to fall between the two contrasting sections toward the central horizontal line in the middle distance creating a variation of focus that moves from one side to another and spread the attention over the various areas.
[4] The swirls of somber tone emanating from the blaze of torched places in the background seem to reinforce the tense mood and sharpen the interplay of dark and light.
[5] Critical opinion notes "A dark palette tending to brown is set afire by strongly contrasting hues.
A lurid orange illuminates the Endless Night, in which figures with masklike faces standing on a parapet stonily witness the suffering of people and animals below.