The Art of Suffering

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    Well, they sure look well-fed at least.
     
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    Medusa, Caravaggio

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    Prometheus, Peter Paul Rubens

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    Perseus Turning Phineas and his Followers to Stone, Luca Giordano

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    “The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands”​


    or my personal favorite "the eye is action, the hand is inaction"...well actually its the other way around

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    The remorse of Orestes, Bouguereau

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    Andromache Mourning Hector, Jacques Louis David

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    David Hosie's Wanderer

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    in reminiscence of Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer

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    Albrecht Dürer's "The Knight, Death and The Devil" (although it doesn't depict suffering directly, it has a strong impression on me - What was and what follows.)

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    * kudos for the thread
     
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    Martin Schongauer, "Temptation of St. Anthony"

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    I can't think she could be happy -

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    Herbert James Draper: Pot pourri
     
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    Michelangelo's self-portrait in the Sistine Chapel:

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    - that thing -like shed skin- that's his vision of himself.

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    This is beautiful. I love it.
     
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    when u ee sumone dying and they keep pushing you away
    but they try to hold on to u but they dont really want to so they make ecuses up to makeout they are ok yet they canat tae their eyes off you
    thats suffering if anyone know what suffering islike the person im talking about does hes been a drug addict for as long as he can member hes off the needles now only smokes dope and tobacco has a few beers
    and is there for everyone more so for me
    when he goes what do i do how do i go on what happens next
    so i find qanother friend as easy as that
    how do people cope with suffering:shrug:
     
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    ?? How do we know that? He left writing behind that said 'this skinned guy is me'?

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    Turambar Kills Glaurung

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    Glaurung tells Turambar, he slept with his own dead sister

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    The Brazen Serpent - by Michelangelo

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    The Course of Empire: Destruction - by Thomas Cole

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