Compare And Contrast Bing And Goya

Xu Bing and Francisco de Goya both share similarities when expressing their views on abuse of power. The difference, however, is how they choose to express their stance on the matter. Bing’s art installation has thousands of invented characters that resemble the Chinese language, which in turn creates an indecipherable language that challenges traditional views and expose the power that language has over people. Goya, however, uses a more naturalistic setting in And There’s Nothing To Be Done to show the daunting horrors of war to state his point. In General Folly, Goya produces grotesque beings with jagged lines with a heavy contrast between light and dark in his work to show the turmoil and anxiety of war.

In And There’s Nothing To Be Done, stands a blindfolded man, bound to a wooden post with his head bowed. His clothes shine through the darkened background despite its rugged condition from the struggle that he has endured. Below him, lies a contorted body with his arms and legs sprawled in different directions while clouded eyes peer out towards the viewer as he lays in a surrounding of his own blood. Behind the man bound to the wooden post, men in a similar position are seen, kneeling in defeat. To his left, the viewers are able to see the cause of the carnage, as a line of
In the center of the work there is a trail of light that forms a curved line of people who leads the viewer to a mass of people who are becoming conjoined together into one massive being. Goya uses the dark and nightmarish landscapes to show the horrors committed during war by showing emancipated and mutilated corpses being drawn into a single