As an artist, I’m always interested in how great artists depict various aspects our lives. In this post, I will be collecting and posting art that addresses the end of life (so if you are interested, please check back for updates). Some of the art may not resonate with you or with me, but art that makes us think or feel uncomfortable is perhaps just as worthwhile in broadening out minds as art that is comforting and healing.
“Death and Life” Gustav Klimt
“Ophelia” John Everett Millais
“The Angel of Death and the Sculptor” from the Milmore Memoria, Daniel Chester French
“Beata Beatrix” Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“Angel of Grief” by William Wetmore Story
“La Venadita (Little Deer)” by Frida Kahlo
“Sea Lavender” Rafal Olbinski
“The Burial of the Count of Orgaz ” (Spanish: El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz) El Greco
“Swan Bones” Kelly Louise Judd
“Danse Macabre”
Illustration by Chloe Bristol
“Andromache Mourning Hector” Jacques-Louis David
“Forest Sleep” Kelly Louise Judd
“Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation” by Hans Memling
“Asphalt and Chalk, Michael Brown, Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, Trayvon Martin” by Titus Kaphar
“Silhouette” by Ana Mendieta
“Invisible Presence: Bling Memories” by Ebony G. Patterson
“Before I Die” by Candy Chang
“Natura Morta” by Maria Ionova-Gribina
“Shoes On The Danube Bank” Can Togay & Gyula Pauer,
