Danse Macabre: Death in Print from Durer to Dix
Marco Dente, Baccio Bandinelli, Albrecht Durer, Otto Dix
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Tue-Wed, Thu-Mon 11am-6pm, Fri 11am-8pm
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The danse macabre (dance of death), a visual allegory of life's impermanence depicted by lively dancing skeletons, was popularized in woodcut illustrations as early as the 14th century. Equal parts foreboding and whimsical, this ghoulish imagery was taken up by artists across Europe in the centuries that followed. By World War I, German Expressionist artists found relevance in the subject, deploying motifs of skulls, hourglasses, and personifications of Death to evoke the grim circumstances of war, revolution, and industrialization.