Art and Tragedy

The story of tragedy can be told in almost any way you can imagine, and it manifests itself in art as often as it does in drama and literature. In art, you get a smaller segment of the story, but you can see it instead of hear it or read it, and in that way I think it becomes more visceral. For example, "Oedipus" by Matthew Holloway is just a head. But it's solemn and blue and elongated and tilted slightly, with darkness for eyes and darkness surrounding. It's an immediately sad piece of work, and it can be fully understood by someone without knowledge of the tale of Oedipus because it is so simple.