Your questions about does artworks

Wize Guy answers:

Some paintings of murder:

http://www.artinthepicture.com/paintings/tags/murder

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45725000/jpg/_45725650_dscn4214.jpg

Versions of the death of Holofernes;

http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/ARIPOD/39151050~The-Death-of-Holofernes-Posters.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Judith_Beheading_Holofernes_by_Caravaggio.jpg/800px-Judith_Beheading_Holofernes_by_Caravaggio.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/GENTILESCHI_Judith.jpg/492px-GENTILESCHI_Judith.jpg

Another version of the death of Marat;

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Charlotte_Corday.jpg/445px-Charlotte_Corday.jpg

Death of Caesar;

http://img.artrenewal.org/images/artists/g/Gerome_Jean-Leon/large/Gerome_Jean_Leon_The_Death_of_Caesar.jpg

http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/BRGPOD/20147~Death-of-Julius-Caesar-Posters.jpg

Wize Guy answers:

The Sacrifice of Isaac by Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1401
Bronze relief
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

Gustav Klimt
Year 1907
Type Oil, silver, and gold on canvas
Dimensions 138 cm × 138 cm (54 in × 54 in)
Location Neue Galerie

Wize Guy answers:

By the 1950s however Klippel had grown apart from the surrealists and moved to New York. There he was invigorated by the burgeoning art scene, and particularly the rise of abstract expressionism. As with his flirtation with the surrealists, Klippel threw himself into the new aesthetic with vigour. His earlier interest in scientific pursuits melded with his artistic concerns, and he began moving away from “traditional” sculpture and into what might be termed collage sculpture.

He started joining found objects together to create sculpture, in much the same was as a collagist creates pictures. He began incorporating machine parts, pieces of wood and industrial piping into his works. The result was his now-famous “junk” assemblages.

Wize Guy answers:

Jeff Koons does not use animals. Well… he does but that is not really the point of the question.

Any image he uses is chosen by him because it is already set in the brain of the viewer. It already has a intellectual and /or emotional meaning. Like Disney uses animals. (If Donald Duck wasn’t a protected Trade Mark, Jeff Koons would have used him for sure.) They have this ‘cultural load’ to them. Cute rabbits for instance have a completely different impact after Jeff is finished with them. A small figurine of some kids pushing a huge pig gets a whole new perspective (literally and figuratively) when blown up to life size and the huge pig is an actual huge pig. It stops being cute and starts looking like (as an example) work.

And that is why he uses the images he uses including animals.

Wize Guy answers:

Klimt did a lot of art depicting love and sensuality http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=klimt&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

The Pre-Raphaelites also had love, lovers and beauty as a theme quite often http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=pre+raphaelites&spell=1