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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…

The image is a black-and-white professional headshot of a woman looking directly into the camera with a pensive expression. The woman in the picture is Parul Sehgal, a critic for the New York Times.

The image shows a woman in a black dress, wearing a gold medal engraved with an icon of a book. She smiles brightly, looking slightly to the left of the camera. The woman is Jesmyn Ward, having just received the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction.

The image shows a professional headshot of a man in profile, wearing glasses and a button-down. He smiles to the left of the camera. The man is Cori Di Biase, reviewer for ARDOR literary magazine.

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…