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Young Women on fire
Young Women on fire
Young Women on fire
Young Women on fire
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This detail from the Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki depicts a group of young women surrounded by atomic fire. The panel sequence this detail comes from presents more than thirty people trapped in a hellish firestorm - hoping and praying for escape. Rather than attempt to show the entire panel (which is quite large), I instead focused on this remarkable trio of forlorn figures located at the right end of the painting. The artists possessed amazing skill and their superlative draftsmanship shows in the sensitive rendering of the girl's bodies.