Scientists concluded that contemporary society has become more exposed to many other types of violence than in the past. Let's look into media, art and literature and their effect on our attitudes towards violence.
Tag: war
10 Anti-war shocking artworks
In contrast to the past, DADA, the first declared anti-war art movement, approached the subjects of war, death, terror, insanity, diseases, domination, and conquest at a completely different level. The artists were often on the frontline, thus, by interiorizing the traumatic experiences there, they were able to exteriorize them on their canvas later. The results speak for themselves.
Francis Bacon: Painting the Dark Side of Life
British artist Francis Bacon is one of the best-known figurative painters of the 20th century. Notorious for his raw, unsettling imagery that conveys psychological states and turmoils, Bacon’s paintings capture the dark side of everyday life, through ambivalent and grotesque representations of animals and human figures.