Violence And Death Through The Arts

Why we like to watch the violence and why we like to show it?

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(via Corinthian helmet from the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) found with the warrior’s skull inside. - Museum of Artifacts)

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A space giraffe (at Vintage Industrial Bar)

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Exploited, Zagreb, april 2017.

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The Carrying Of The Cross 1480

Hieronymus Bosch

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On November 13th, 1985, a massive eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano occurred, killing 22 000 people and destroying thirteen villages in Colombia. One very notable victim of this natural disaster was that of 13-year-old Omayra Sanchez. When the lahar hit her house, Omayra’s legs became trapped under her home’s concrete and roof, rendering her immobilized from the waist down. Despite rescue teams’ best efforts to free the girl, they were unable to without breaking her legs in the process. The young girl remained trapped beneath the water for three harrowing nights. During her predicament, she was said to have had a positive attitude, agreeing to be interviewed and singing songs. It was decided by doctors that it would be more humane to let her die, as they were lacking in the surgical equipment needed to save her if they were to amputate her legs. She died on November 16th due to exposure, either from hypothermia or gangrene. Just the day before, her face reportedly swelled, her hands whitened, and her eyes turned completely red. French photographer Frank Fournier took a photograph of her in her final days, which was titled The Agony of Omayra Sanchez. In the photograph, the lighting made her eyes appear black instead of red.

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Death Squad mercenary in El Salvador 1980's

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Some Of The most brutal photographies of all time

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Apertado pela Fome (1945) 

  Marcelino Vespeira

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Da Un’altra Angolazione (by Marcello Alinari)

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From different perspective

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Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990), Untitled, 1985. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 in.

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The murmur of the innocents, Gottfried Helnwein, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2009.

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Dance macabre

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Irreversible (2002)

Directed by Gaspar Noé. With Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Jo Prestia. Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.

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Self-Portrait by Photographer Izumi Miyazaki

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Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier - fight in TV studio

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Artistic view Of events