Disturbing and Provocative Art

tatteredbanners:

The Temptation of St. Anthony by Salvator Rosa

The Temptation of St. Anthony by Salvator Rosa

keyplease:

hater’s gunna hate.
I’m no hater. To those who describe non-believers as “you people”. I was raised in a christian home and was a christian for most of my life. My family is christian and I respect them for holding to their faith. It just seems silly to me to base your entire existence off of a book.
Atheism is looked down upon because it doesn’t rely on a higher power to guide life, it uses science. If you feel like judging me, that’s your right. But don’t look down on me for holding to a different system.
I don’t look down on christians, buhddists, etc., don’t look down on atheism.

hater’s gunna hate.

I’m no hater. To those who describe non-believers as “you people”. I was raised in a christian home and was a christian for most of my life. My family is christian and I respect them for holding to their faith. It just seems silly to me to base your entire existence off of a book.

Atheism is looked down upon because it doesn’t rely on a higher power to guide life, it uses science. If you feel like judging me, that’s your right. But don’t look down on me for holding to a different system.

I don’t look down on christians, buhddists, etc., don’t look down on atheism.

shuddhi:

FLORIS, Frans

The Fall of the Rebellious Angels

1554

alecto:

disturbthebookmites:

The Number of the Beast is 666, William Blake, 1805.

I associate this painting with Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”-Banksy

"I'm from Greece, male, born in 1963, and I am interested in any kind of disturbing and provocative art (grotesque, horror, gore, violence, macabre, sm-bondage, nude, erotics, etc), in history and in fine art photography with no ethical limits about the themes.

As a MIT department declares: "Graphics that depict dark aspects of history—such as violence, intolerance, racism, aggressive nationalism, war and atrocity, abuse of others and of the environment in general—have not been censored. We must confront such harsh images directly—and struggle to critically understand them—if we hope to ever make a better world." (ocw.mit.edu)

Similar is my view, that art or tragic events of the past keep a safe distance from the Real (with the forms of representation or with the time passing by). Consequently, the observers and audience use various subjective perspectives of interpretation, so they can reach in safety and "work out" by themselves something that disturbs them either as a personal trauma, or as of social morality issues.

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