The Face of Evil
A SERIES OF IMAGES REFLECTING VARIOUS NOTIONS OF EVIL

Great artists have been moved to put their images of evil on canvas. 

Goya, in his "Third of May, 1808,"  through his powerful use of color, concentrates the viewer's attention on the slaughter, excluding everything that is irrelevant. One knows instantly that the victim is good and innocent, while the shooters represent evil.

Picasso's "Guernica" (detail at left), considered by many to be his greatest masterpiece, powerfully conveys the horror felt by residents of an ancient Basque town almost completely destroyed--for no military purpose but to demoralize the civilian population--by a German air raid on April 27, 1937.

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