La guillotine, France, untill 1981
Étiquette : death
Bullfighting Scene (The torero is raised), Pablo Picasso
Medium: oil,canvas
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Bullfighting Scene (The torero is raised), Pablo Picasso
Otto Dix – Nächtliche Erscheinung / Nocturnal Apparition (1923)
Otto Dix – Nächtliche Erscheinung / Nocturnal Apparition (1923)
Two men climb up an electric pole to see last rites of Mahatma Gandhi’s funeral – 1948
Two men climb up an electric pole to see last rites of Mahatma Gandhi’s funeral – 1948
Borniol
Kobayashi Eitaku
Body of a Courtesan in 9 stages of Decomposition, c. 1870.
Apart from art this was also used for a Zen meditation technic. In order to assimilate the impermanence of the material world (and encourage chastity), the monk was told to imagine the corpse of a beautiful woman (symbol of earthly delights) slowly rotting away just in the same sequence as the paintings above.
Kobayashi Eitaku c. 1870
/Ashes to ashes
Body of a Courtesan in 9 stages of Decomposition, c. 1870.
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