I found the painting Garden at Hiroshima by Standish Backus to be chilling. This painting is the depiction of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped, leaving the city in ruins. There are only two people left standing in the middle of everything and one of them looks like a very small child. It is hard to tell where anything was and it is amazing that there are still things lying around. There is only one item that I can really tell for sure what it is and it is a bicycle. Looking at a painting like this really makes me wonder how we could drop such a devastating bomb on a country and not feel like we've done anything wrong. Especially when it was dropped on a city of innocent civilians.
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