Police probe Swede's Holocaust ash art work
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Date Published: December 7th, 2012.
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Date Published: December 7th, 2012.
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This article is written due to a controversial painting that was created in Sweden with a combination of cremated Holocaust victims and water to create a paint mixture. The mixture was then used in a painting by Carl Michael von Hausswolff to represent their suffering and evict their untold emotions. A complaint was filed against the painting while it was on exhibit in the town of Lund, Sweden. The exhibit was deemed insensible by some of its visitors, and was forced to be open only by appointment. Now the authorities are deciding whether they should press charges on this painting and its creator or not.
I felt like this article was very accurate for this time of the year. The winter season seems to attract a lot of scrutiny for the holidays that are celebrated within it, and so I moderately understand both sides of the argument. In my opinion, the painting is very offensive to the victims of the concentration camp, and the families that never had the chance to even receive their relatives ashes after their passing. Whenever people want to create a memorial for WW2 soldiers or 9/11 victims, they do not physically go and find bodies or ashes of the victims, but instead create a landmark that will create memories of the people. I believe that the painting could have be created with regular paint and still evicted the same emotions and remembrance throughout any individual that had the luxury of view it, without the deification of bodies.
This event ties in with the country of Sweden due to its partaking in the conflict of World War II. Many of the inhabitants of this country had family that either died fighting back the German invaders, or were taken into the concentration camps. The remembrance of the victims of those harsh times are as significant for the people as remembering 9/11 is for us. The people obviously still have strong emotions about the victims of the tragedy, or this would not even be seen as a problem but more as an attention getting attempt to create a memorial. Citizens across the entire country were affected by WW II and hold the outcomes of it with a holy and sacred degree.
I felt like this article was very accurate for this time of the year. The winter season seems to attract a lot of scrutiny for the holidays that are celebrated within it, and so I moderately understand both sides of the argument. In my opinion, the painting is very offensive to the victims of the concentration camp, and the families that never had the chance to even receive their relatives ashes after their passing. Whenever people want to create a memorial for WW2 soldiers or 9/11 victims, they do not physically go and find bodies or ashes of the victims, but instead create a landmark that will create memories of the people. I believe that the painting could have be created with regular paint and still evicted the same emotions and remembrance throughout any individual that had the luxury of view it, without the deification of bodies.
This event ties in with the country of Sweden due to its partaking in the conflict of World War II. Many of the inhabitants of this country had family that either died fighting back the German invaders, or were taken into the concentration camps. The remembrance of the victims of those harsh times are as significant for the people as remembering 9/11 is for us. The people obviously still have strong emotions about the victims of the tragedy, or this would not even be seen as a problem but more as an attention getting attempt to create a memorial. Citizens across the entire country were affected by WW II and hold the outcomes of it with a holy and sacred degree.