With a fallen figure in the foreground and armies battling in the background, this is a scene of violence and carnage, prompted perhaps by the cataclysmic events of World War II. It is one of several screenprints that Pollock made in the early 1940s (others can be found nearby).
Gallery label from Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954, November 22, 2015–May 1, 2016.