StudioRevolution has set up this new section as a dedication to the innocent victims of the cowardly and unjustified terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Shockingly, we have heard some of our counterparts in the international art community assert a "moral equivalency" claim that "America deserved the attack" or "America was asking for it because of its unjust foreign policies with respect to the Israeli – Palestinian situation and other Arab issues". We at StudioRevolution reject any such morally bankrupt positions. The September 11th attack upon innocent civilians, merely trying to earn a living to provide for their families, is the most reprehensible act imaginable and is the definition of evil. Believers in such "moral equivalency" are certainly free to think and say what they wish, however they need not apply here. The only actions against unjust government policies that we support are the non-violent, civil-disobedient approaches brought forth by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

September 11th is a watershed event like no other, not because it changed the course of history (only time will reveal that), but because television enabled the entire world to watch the cold-blooded murder of over 3,000 innocent civilians at the same time as it occurred. Viewing and the endless re-viewing of such a horrific attack will alter our way of thinking for decades to come, and certainly will inspire artists in ways previously unimaginable. Some of history’s greatest art has surfaced as a result of inspiration derived from the horrors of war, conflagration, and humanity’s inhumanity unto itself. Examples: La Marseillaise (1792), the riveting French National Anthem, was inspired and composed in its entirety in one nights time during the French Revolution by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle. Francisco Goya’s powerful painting, The Third of May (1808), was directly inspired by the brutal occupation of Spain by the French Army under Napoleon. The music of Ludwig van Beethoven, the 3rd through 7th Symphonies in particular (1803 – 1812), were certainly inspired in whole or part by the Napoleonic Wars raging through Europe at the time. The Star Spangled Banner (1814), the national anthem of the United States, was written by Francis Scott Key while watching the British bombardment of U.S. Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. Eugene Delacroix’s Scenes of the Massacre at Chios: Greek Families Awaiting Death or Slavery (1822-24) was inspired by the Greek war of independence against the Ottoman Turks. Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) were respectively inspired by his experiences as an ambulance driver in World War I and as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War. Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) evokes the horror of war and was inspired by the Nazi German bombing and destruction of the Spanish city of the same name. The Naked and the Dead (1948) by Norman Mailer was inspired by his personal experiences fighting in the Philippines during World War II. John Lennon's heartfelt song masterpiece, Imagine (1971), was largely inspired by the Vietnam War and the vibrant protest movement against it. These are but a few of the notable artworks inspired by the terrors of their day, the list continues.

Although we all would prefer that the evil attack of September 11th had never occurred, we nevertheless remain interested to see what art will surface as a result of it. Our game at StudioRevolution is the "visual arts", and as such we have displayed a series of artwork on the subject below. We will continue to post evocative and powerful images on the subject as they come to our attention.

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