breaking down the corpse in art
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all manner of the macabre.
d_composition is an art historical take on the body hereafter. Formed in the petri-dish of visual culture and death, it’s aimed at those who rubberneck for anything morbidly curious.
Amongst these hoardings, you’ll find hot takes on art with a dark sensibility, from ages ago til now and my latest fixations which are usually death of goth adjacent media.
the premature burial
Throughout the Victorian era, folk were convinced that being buried alive was a very real possibility, largely due to the limited ways of medically proving a death. The Premature Burial by Antoine Wiertz depicts this pure-bred horror.