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Before the invention of photography, mankind recorded its most frightening historical events via paintings. Such paintings often romanticized struggles, or else presented the scenes in distorted ways, to further convey the terror experienced at the time by our ancestors. This list features the ten most disturbing paintings that depict historical atrocities and disasters from the [...]
Posted by Matthew Zarzeczny on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Art · Tagged Art, Bonaparte Visits the Plague Stricken in Jaffa, Explosion (Grosz), Guernica, historical atrocities, Matthew Zarzeczny, paintings, Souvenir of Civil War, The Death of Marat, The Execution of Charles I, The Massacre of the Innocents, The Raft of the Medusa, The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, The Third of May 1808, TopTenz
It’s a well known fact that paintings and art, in general, are inherently subjective things. Sure, we can talk about “famous” art, but fame does not equal quality; at the end of the day, all talks about the best or worst art of any kind come down to one basic question: what IS art anyway? [...]
Posted by Rick Raule on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Art, Entertainment · Tagged Andy Warhol, Art Institute of Chicago, artist, Arts, Black Square, commercial artist, Cubism, Francisco Goya, Guernica, Jan van Eyck, Kazimir Malevich, Leonardo Da Vinci, Modern art, Modern painters, Pablo Picasso, paint drippings, Rick Raule, Russian avant-garde, Sandro Botticelli, The Third of May, Vasily Kandinsky, Visual arts, Wassily Kandinsky
