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	Violent descriptions, themes, or images have been represented in highly esteemed art for centuries. Here are examples from painting, drama, and film.
	Pablo Picasso's Guernica from 1937 depicts the horrors of war. Copyright CORBIS/Burstein Collection Copyright: 2000 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
			Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film The Battleship Potemkin, a film made at the request of Soviet leadership, uses images of graphic violence to tell its propagandistic political story. Still courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, Film Stills Archive.		Andrea Mantegna's St. Sebastian, c. 1455-60, is one of the many paintings that vividly display the fate of the martyred Roman saint. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, Panel, 23 3/4 x 11 7/8, Erich Lessing/Art Resource.
			(They draw and fight)
	First Servant		Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger.
	Regan		Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus! (Takes a sword, and runs at him behind)
	First Servant		O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left To see some mischief on him. O! (Dies)
	Cornwall		(Stabbing Gloucester in the eye) Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly! Where is thy lustre now?
	Gloucester		All dark and comfortless. Where's my son Edmund? Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature, To quit this horrid act.
			A passage from Shakespeare's King Lear in which Gloucester is blinded. This action occurs on stage.

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