#i love how art communicates the inexplicable. and justly compensates for where language falls short.
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Thinking about art pieces of mothers holding their dead/dying children.
In order from left-top: Woman with Dead Child and Pietà(Mother with her Dead Son) — Käthe Kollwitz // Pietà-Michelangelo // The Family of Street Acrobats; The Injured Child(1874)- Gustave Doré
#what do you call a parent who loses their child?#what word could possibly encapsulate that immensurate grief?#i love how art communicates the inexplicable. and justly compensates for where language falls short.#there is no word for parents grieving their children. because no word could ever grapple#the incalculable devestation of that grief. but I think these pieces capture that profound sadness without leaving any of it#käthe kollwitz#gustave doré#art
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