Art and Architecture
Art, society and death – a bright topic for Wednesday morning
Do we all have an obsession with death? That’s the claim made by the makers of the documentary How Art Made the World, which suggests that death is a major theme of our visual world and that we are all compulsively drawn to morbid images. Is this completely missing the point? – read more
Why does imagery of death have to be viewed as an obsession or morbid? Paintings of flowers, doggies, people have been done to death, why not death itself. Death is a part of the reality of human existence and depicted no more or less than any other aspect of human experience.
Well there was my humble penny’s worth this Friday morning in snowy cold ohio.
Posted by jafabrit • 7 March 2008 at 2:05 pm
I agree, Jafabrit. I think there are just as many works of art dedicated to life as there are to death.
That’s my reply this Friday afternoon in sunny, yet nippy, UK.
Posted by Seb • 7 March 2008 at 4:13 pm