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 and goth adjacent media.
raft of the medusa
When Théodore Géricault’s painted The Raft of the Medusa (1818-9) he really committed 100%. He interviewed survivors, made a full-scale replica of the raft and – wait for it – borrowed body parts from the Hospital Beaujnon to create studies of decomposition.