"Skull with a burning cigarette" - Van Gogh
It is known that the famous Dutch artist suffered from schizophrenia. Blood-chilling canvas was written exactly at the time of exacerbation of the disease. All his life Van Gogh smoked a lot, and the depicted skull is probably partly his self-portrait.
1885-1886
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"Severed heads" - Theodore Géricault
Depicting the heads of people, cut off by the guillotine during the execution, the artist wanted to show the collapse of the ideals of the French Revolution. To prepare for the painting, he specially visited the morgue.
1818
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"A negro suspended alive by his ribs from the gallows"
William Blake, 1796
The gruesome painting draws attention to the problems of racism, and the skull painted at the bottom makes us think about the frailty of all things and the fact that it is impossible to avoid death.
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Recycling Art sculptures created from car parts and scrap metal
By Rustam Akhmetsafin
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Simberg Hugo "The Garden of Death", 1896
In the Finnish artist's ĸpainting, human souls are depicted as plants in need of constant care, and the garden itself is represented as a place where death can express its feelings.
According to one interpretation, death is the face of love, and the flowers are so fragile that they cannot withstand the effects of this feeling.
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1․"Letterᴏ to Mother"
2. 1․ "The letterᴏ has been interrupted"
3. 1․ "The letterᴏ left unfinished"
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"Electric Chair"
Andy Warhol, 1964
With this masterpiece Warhol opened his famous very scary cycle of "death and disasters". As the author recalls, the plot was inspired by thoughts of death.
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Dazed Korea special edition, April 2022
Hair creative director Erol Karadag
Photography Jeiroh Yanga
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"Drowning Dog"
Francisco Goya
The dog sticks its head out of the water to save itself. But there is no hope of salvation; this is indicated by the bleak empty space at the top of the canvas.
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