#cheering for death and violence and it is referred by the players as perverted

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George Bellows, Both Members of This Club (1909) and Stag at Sharkey’s (1909)

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#george bellows #art history #putting these in the notes bc but been thinking about boxing a lot and sex and the audience and voyeurism #and these george bellows boxing paintings i feel like show the perversion of the audience so well #i mean take a closer look at the crowd and see how deformed they are #its almost terrifying #one other media that i also feel like shows the perverted audience well is the novel the long walk by stephen king #where the crowd is a character on it's own and plays a part in the world building #cheering for death and violence and it is referred by the players as perverted #ANYWAY #:P