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 at the intersection of visual culture and death, it’s aimed at those who rubberneck for anything morbidly curious. We welcome the presence lurking in the dark, believing that by talking about ‘it’, we cultivate empathy & understanding.
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.
grave moments
Lowkey obsessed with these grave moments by Caspar David Friedrich. While he’s more commonly known for vast, Romantic landscapes, I think these paintings are due some love.