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Sunday, April 02, 2006

i don't even know what to call this one











cm's post about durga reminded me of artemisia gentileschi, whose paintings featured women cutting off heads of men (or driving nails into their neck) more often than not. pretty cool, huh? an art history prof of mine was a big fan and we actually had to watch a movie about her. i think feminists in general are fans, as keaton's law prof posted the picture on the left on the website used for class assignments for no apparent reason. yeah, pointless post but there you have it.

1 Comments:

At 8:39 PM, Blogger wildfreehorse said...

Upon learning of the existance of such paintings, I have to say "awesome!". Rarely can art capture the sheer horror of cutting off a human head and make it so beautiful like the neo-classicists.

 

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