Interrogation II, Leon Golub

Art is not limited to beauty. Nor is it necessarily moral. Artists like the late Leon Golub (Interrogation II, above) rejected pleasing beauty, making aggressive and repulsive images as a part of a moral act- condemning with strange elegance the obscenity of death and torture for power and profit. 


These paintings are huge, painted on raw linen, usually nailed on the wall. 




So ask: which nation is perpetrating the horror shown above? It matters, and not at all. There are so many candidates.