Yesterday I felt that the only suitable subject for today’s post could be “Last Judgements in art” or “Depictions of the end of the world”.
However, now I think that it’s better if I share with you paintings which will speak for many people’s feelings of resignation, sadness and d-e-s-p-a-i-r. No captions needed.
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch, Despair, 1892, The Munch Museum
James Ensor
James Ensor, The Despair of Pierrot or Pierrot in Despair, 1910, Collection of Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall, Job In Despair, 1960, Musée national Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice, France
Theo van Doesburg
Theo van Doesburg, Despair, 1915, Utrecht, Centraal Museum.
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh, Old Man in Sorrow (On the Threshold of Eternity), 1890, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Giotto
Giotto, Desperation, 1306, The Arena Chapel, Padua
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer, The Desperate Men, 1515, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet, The Desperate Man (Self-Portrait), 1843-45, Private collection.
This self-portrait is so much me.
I’m so sorry America.
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Magda, art historian and Italianist, she writes about art because she cannot make it herself. She loves committed and political artists like Ai Weiwei or the Futurists; like Joseph Beuys she believes that art can change us and we can change the world.
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