Pain: The Making And The Unmaking Of The Word

“Pain” by Diane Ackerman is a story about pain. The author describes how people can withstand pain, and how difficult it is to define pain “which may be sharp, dull, shooting, throbbing, imaginary” (301). Culture and tradition are very important on people lives. Therefore, many of them do incredible things, in Istanbul for example “teenage boys dressed in shiny silk fezzes and silk suits decorated with glitter” (300), or in Bali people “go into trances and pick up red-hot cannonballs from an open fire, than carry them down the road” (298). This is just couple examples of controlling our body.

“The Deer of Providencia”, a short story by Annie Dillard presents suffering in multiple ways; it is used through nature and violence. In the short story, four North Americans, one woman and three men, visited a village where they witnessed a deer suffering. It did not bother any of them that they were observing a deer suffer right in front of their eyes. The men of the group thought it was bizarre that the girl of the group was not bothered by the torturing. As their wives would have done anything to save the deer.

In like manner, Frida’s suffering throughout her life had a huge impact on her long term career. Also, “By distilling and depicting the emotions surrounding her traumatic accident and subsequent medical complications, Kahlo painted experiences that people could recognize and relate to—feeling pain, being hospitalized, and fearing isolation.” (Pain and the Paintbrush: The Life and Art of Frida Kahlo.) Moreover, her artistic output was dominated by self-portraits that often showed her suffering. This was due to Kahlo’s poor health, from illnesses like the poliomyelitis virus, which weakened and deformed her body, and chronic pain, which inevitably became prominent themes in her artwork.

She went through many miscarriages in her life due to a bus accident that impaled her pelvis and crushed her dream of children. The concept of Loss of a loved one is explored through Kahlo’s idea of herself and woman’s capability to bare children. The use of symbols connected to her body show the miscarriage, woman’s fertility, her marriage, accident and her unborn baby. All these symbols link to her loss of her child to her beloved husband. This concept can be compared to Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and the loss of Lennie.

Holocaust art is a potent tool for communicating the feelings and experiences of individuals who suffered during the Holocaust. Holocaust art frequently incorporates themes of trauma, loss, and displacement as well as emotions like grief, despair, hopelessness, and sadness. A[n] other artist that captures the emotional and psychological toll of the Holocaust is Bedrich Fritta. In her art piece “Life of a Ghetto Prominent” it looks like people on the bottom of the painting are in survival mode. Having barely any food or water for anyone, and the Germans on the top are just watching them suffer while they're enjoying their lives.

Having your hair braided by local girls, exploring the forest, and seeing a tarantula are experiences that bring us closer to nature and lead us to desire simpler things. In Dillard’s next essay, The Deer at Providencia, she makes the point that suffering is unavoidable, we are all going to suffer at one point in our lives just as the man and the deer did. Pain is unavoidable, whether one is a human or an

Drooling tears run down her chin. Between her beautifully shaped breasts is a fissure, and a broken column in place of her spine is revealed. There she is—broken, penetrated, yet beautiful Frida Kahlo portrayed in The Broken Column. Suffering was a recurrent theme in Frida Kahlo’s life.

Art is the force that bonds humans, connecting people across both seas and centuries. It is simultaneously historical and futuristic, original and inspired, intimate and distant. Without art, humanity and relationships are lost. Though art doesn’t always involve language, it is a universal communication tool that allows people to cope with trauma and bond with one another, no matter where or when they reside. Works of art incessantly draw from and inspire one another.

“This sculpture has meaning. Pain”

For hundreds of years, people have used art as a way of portraying strong emotions such as passion, lust and joy. One of the more powerful of these emotions is that of loss, which is often portrayed as a overwhelming and devastating feeling. Various forms of art have different ways of conveying emotions, whether it be through the use of melody in music, with colors in paintings or through the thoughts and actions of characters in literature. Several characters in Andre Dubus’ “Killings” clearly display their feelings of loss in the story through the way they are characterized and this highlights the devastating power that loss has on those who are forced to experience it. The protagonist of the story, the grieving father of Matt,

This piece is important because it is exceptional compared to well-known artists. It has an philosophical interpretation that can relate to viewers’ lives. It is visually unusual compared to other art because it does not have a specific subject, and the crypticness is fascinating because it has viewers thinking deeply about its meaning as they begin to understand the visuals. It is a substantial piece of art because if one is having a difficult time in life, one can glance at The Deep and feel a sense of comfort of not feeling

Magdalena was known for being a very talented painter, but what many people don’t know is that her passion for art was developed because of a bus accident in 1925. It was a sunny, peaceful, ordinary day for Magdalena, she was riding a bus along with her boyfriend on their way back home, when out of the sudden they found themselves in the middle of a crash, there were remaining of the bus all around, Magdalena “suffered serious injuries… including a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder” (Friedman). It was a miracle she was alive, doctors were skeptical on whether or not she was going to be able to walk again.

In this QEP essay, Alisha Joy how is her partial elements and style used to showcase human trafficking? (1) Is there an association in artistic style and technique that creates cubism in her photograph and use of the concept of space to her advantage in a photograph (2)? Is the artist using symbolism to provoke a philological response to create awareness and an emotional connect with the viewer? (3),’ In my perspective, Alisha Joy created the element of space to draw the views eye to mask, in using the symbol of the mask, and the use of the element of black space created a cubism aspect to the photograph.

This essay examines one of the many self-portrait paintings by Frida Kahlo called ‘broken column’ (1944). In this painting Kahlo portrays herself as a complete full bodied woman while also reflecting her broken insides. She stands alone against a surreal barren fissured landscape that echoes the open wound in her torso. A broken stone column replaces her damaged spine and is protected by a white orthopaedic corset, while sharp nails pierce into her olive naked flesh. Frida is partially nude except for the corset and white bandages.

Zhang Huan, a Chinese performance artist had a similar approach. He noticed for his performances of self inflicting pain and over coming the pain. The argument of this paper is to draw attention between the similarities of Zhang Hunan’s practice with the