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This is a beautiful pattern made by using bacteria in a petri dish.

This is made to show how the bacteria of the gut flourishes almost like a flower.

This uses bacteria from the gut to portray a flower.

This shows bacteria as art but how it is needed for survival.

This 1915 piece by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is an Expressionist oil painting depicting the artist in his studio, rather than on a battlefield. He wears his military uniform, but his right arm is a bloody stump, symbolizing the emotional and potentially…

Sophie Calle's "Blind" is a series of works created in 1986 where she interviewed people blind from birth, asking them to describe their concept of beauty. Calle then photographed both the individual and her own photographic interpretation of their…

The 1910 painting "Self-Portrait with Arm Twisted Above Head" by Egon Schiele is a watercolor and charcoal (sometimes described as oil) self-portrait showing the artist in a contorted pose, his arm raised and twisted above his head. The depiction is…

Käthe Kollwitz's The Mothers (Die Mütter), created between 1921 and 1923, is a woodcut print from her "War" (Krieg) portfolio. Inspired by the loss of her son in World War I, it depicts a group of mothers forming a protective barrier around their…

Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," from 1937, is a monumental black, white, and grey oil painting depicting the suffer caused by the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The painting features fragmented figures; a gored…

Francis Bacon's "Three Studies for a Crucifixion" is a triptych that explores themes of suffering, mortality, and existential angst. Each panel presents a distorted figure on a crucifix, rendered in Bacon's signature style, characterized by raw…