Should art represent violence such as lynching?

Christopher Calcano: Art is art...anything that gives off an emotion.Why not?

Oswaldo Rayburn: yes b/c it expresses what the artist is trying to get across to his/her viwer and its supposed to effect people so they can see things from different views.

Paul Maymi: Yes. I know the idea seems strange now, but as time passes people may forget our language, our written history may become lost and unintelligible. We have writing from the Greek Mycenean period, for example, but we cannot decipher it, all we have is the buildings and the images. So please do put the hideous into art, as well as the beautiful, it's important to record such things.

Ervin Overbee: Why not? Art is a way to express emotions and stories and other things in a way that words can't quite express. Very little is off-limits to arts. There are depictions of massacres, rapes, beheadings, crucifixions... Lynching is just another thing about humanity that is open to artistic interpretation.

Maynard Reevers: If it is part of a political stance the artist is taking.Look at Goya’s etchings (don’t if you have delicate sensibilities)http://www.wikiwak.com/image/Goya-Guerra+(37).jpgOr Picasso’s Guernicahttp://elmundodebirch.wikispaces.com/file/view/art......Show more