Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
Death is an art, you know.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
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