Resistance & protest
Featured Artworks
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Artemisia Gentileschi (c. 1612–13)
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes hurls us into the fatal instant when Judith and her maid overpower the Assyrian general. In a void of darkness, a hard light chisels out straining arms, a heavy sword, and blood darkening the white sheets—an image of <strong>justice enacted through female collaboration</strong> <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
Race Riot
Andy Warhol (1964)
Race Riot crystallizes a split-second of state force: a police dog lunges while officers with batons surge and a ring of onlookers compresses the scene into a <strong>claustrophobic frieze</strong>. Warhol’s stark, high-contrast silkscreen translates a LIFE wire-photo into a <strong>mechanized emblem</strong> of American racial violence and its mass-media circulation <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.