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the "Two-Headed Calf" is a rather self explanatory poem. It's about a two headed calf born in a field at night and spends its only night alive alone with it's mother. Its life will only last roughly a day once they're taken away so all they know life as is this one night alive underneath the stars. A kind of peace that is only temporary.

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This song is about the pain and longing of wishing to be young again and Mitski the singer asks for her mom to care for her and to ask if she can stay at home just a bit longer. She begs for her mom to wash her back just one more time and to be treated like she's a kid again. The pain of this song is immeasurable and I can't listen to it without crying!

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"Cat with Cat Necklace" and "Portrait of a Literary Orange Cat" by Louis William Wain

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"Mother with Kitten" By Louis William Wain

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This painting has nothing negative in it and overall seems lighthearted. The artist behind this painting though was known for painting cats that were once regular and cute like this but he developed schizophrenia. His slow deterioration over time due to his schizophrenia getting worse can be seen in his paintings such as the ones connected to these. They became more vibrant and psychedelic looking as time went on.

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These self portraits by Utermohlen show the progression of his Alzheimer's over time and how his own face becomes unrecognizable to himself. The progression of Alzheimer's is slow yet unavoidable and once he began to document his own self portraits when diagnosed it carried on for around 4 years. The last self portrait is haunting, the only recognizable features that allude to it being a drawing of something human include only the facial shape and two black holes that represent eyes.

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This painting depicts Lucifer the fallen angel recently expelled out of heaven. You can see the pain and betrayal within him.

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Many gravestones in New England from around the 1600's to the 1700's feature skulls with wings and the Latin phrase 'Memento Mori' written about it which means "Remember that you have to die". It can be seen as a reminder of our mortality and to cherish what we have.

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"Dear" By Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
This art piece can be interpreted in many ways but one interpretation is that it shows an abusive relationship. In the center is a comfy chair but that comfort is fully unattainable due to the whip in the center. The glass surrounding can also cause the pain the abusive relationship inflicts, as the whip has left slashes in the glass surrounding this piece.

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"Ivan the Terrible and his Son" by Ilya Repin

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This painting depicts Ivan the Terrible after he killed his son during an argument between the two of them and regretting it immediately after.

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This painting by August is similar to Anguish yet the roles are reversed. A baby lamb has lost its mother and seems frightened and in pain. The emotion of the child is prominent in its face even though it is an animal. You can feel that it is frightened and terrified.

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"Anguish" by August Friedrich Albrecht
This art piece shows a mother lamb that lost its young. Even though its an animal you can see the pain and agony in its face.

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As a young man, the Danish born artist August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck settled in Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. Schenck spent most of his career in France, specializing in painting landscapes and animal subjects. For over thirty years he was a regular contributor to the Paris Salons, where Anguish was exhibited in 1878.

In this painting, Schenck has given his distraught ewe an expression suggestive of despair mingled with stoic determination. Recognising these decidedly human responses, the viewer might be expected to identify immediately with the animal's grim predicament. The ewe's bravery in the face of the threat posed by the murderous circle of crows is perhaps, however, somewhat overstated in her defiant stance above the bleeding lamb. There is little subtlety evident in this work.

Although Anguish has a sentimental quality, Schenck did not intend this to be overt. Indeed, his sincerity in portraying the nobility in animals was not lost on his contemporaries, with a critic for Le Figaro describing the artist in 1878 as 'One of our finest animal painters. He is one of those originals of the species not yet extinct who prefer dogs to men and find more sweetness in sheep than women'. This is by no means a derogatory statement, but is, rather, a testament to Schenck's abilities as a painter.

Interestingly, if we accept that there is an anthropomorphic quality in Anguish, then the surreal massing of the crows may well be Schenck's method of alluding to the inhumanity prevalent in society. He may here be examining the broader human condition, in the context of an animal painting.

Anguish was one of the earliest acquisitions by the National Gallery of Victoria and the high ideals expressed in the painting were not lost on early visitors to the Gallery. In 1906, this picture was voted among the five most popular in the Melbourne collection and again in 2011, during the National Gallery of Victoria's 150th Anniversary, Anguish appeared in the public's top 10 most popular works.

Text by Laurie Benson from 19th century painting and sculpture in the international collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003, p. 60.

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Anguish - August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck - Google Arts & Culture

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As a young man, the Danish born artist August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck settled in Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. Schenck spent most of his career in France, specializing in painting landscapes and animal subjects. For over thirty years he was a regular contributor to the Paris Salons, where Anguish was exhibited in 1878.

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"Committed" by Beth Cavener
This sculpture shows two animals chained together, gently resting on each other and looking down in a helpless manner. It represents dependent relationships and that they need each other to carry on. The chain represents the permanent dedication they have towards each other, and that they both may feel stuck in this cycle of codependency.

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this art instillation is a robot that sweeps up a fluid that looks like blood in a panicked manner and continues to try to clean up the mess but failing to. It shows helplessness and the robot can't help itself from continuously trying cleaning the mess and only making it worse.