Pain

DEFINITION

Pain is any of a range of unpleasant sensations any individual may experience. Along with love, fear, angst, and the sublime, it is one of the sensations artists have most frequently attempted to objectify ? to represent.Examples:Laoco?n and his Sons, Roman copy of a Hellenistic original from c. 200 BCE, marble, height 1.84 m, Vatican. Trojan priest Laoco?n and his two sons are attacked at an altar by giant snakes. Pliny said it was the work of three sculptors from Rhodes, Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros. The date of the Laoco?n is controversial, some scholars arguing for the late second century BCE, others for c. 50 BCE. See Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman art.Quote: "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?" John Keats (1795-1821), English Romantic poet. See Romanticism. Also see body art, distort, expression, glisk, incongruity, scarification, senses, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, talent, ugly, and xenophobia.<br><br>Pain is any of a range of unpleasant sensations any individual may experience. Along with love, fear, angst, and the sublime, it is one of the sensations artists have most frequently attempted to objectify, to represent.Quote: "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?" John Keats (1795-1821), English Romantic poet. See Romanticism. Also see body art, distort, expression, glisk, incongruity, scarification, senses, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, talent, ugly, and xenophobia.