Art, as witnessed throughout roughly the entirety of the written record, has been seen as much an expression of self as an escape from any number of the inevitable challenges life can and will present; Shimada Yoshiko’s Becoming a Statue of a Japanese Comfort Woman exists as a piece of performance art in addition to a tribute to those no longer with us.
At the same time, Banksy’s Girl Holding an Ice Cream Bomb sheds any form of subtlety by showcasing an image of a child clutching an ice cream cone with a stick of dynamite housed within.
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