Representing the killing of animals is not such a common iconography following the observation of artistic production for centuries. Death has been, for its part, more represented in hunting and food still-life paintings, but it has a different meaning at the beginning of the third millennium, carried by anti-species activism as the environmental concern of a mass extinction and an increasing awareness of animal’ sensibility In this portrait of the current artistic situation, there are a few rare artists who expose the killing in all its cruelty, a troubling change of paradigms whose nature remains ambiguous for the animal rights.