Murmur of the Innocents 1 by Gottfried Helnwein
"In Helnwein’s work, the child functions as a representative of the defenseless, dependent,and abandoned human being. [...] Helnwein used the child to allude to little-noticed things or to clarify contexts, and he repeatedly reacted with his portraits of children to powerful social themes. His early works already address the theme of child abuse. As early as the 1970s his depictions of mistreated and tortured children anticipated the current debate over mistreatment in children’s homes. He was one of the first to address the exploitation of children in art."
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