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Even though it's springtime and the flowers are starting to bloom and the birds are singing,

I still feel like yearning for a

cozier, spookier time of year. This Halloween-type yearning not only infiltrates what I want to watch

and what I want to read, but it also affects what kind of art I am enjoying. In particular, I've been

curious about the myriad ways that we can portray death in visual art,

because death has always been a part of art history.

So much of the great art that we know and love today works in the capacity to stave off one of the terrible side effects of death, being forgotten.

Portraits, stone monuments, ancient coins, they all aim to ensure that the subject depicted

will be remembered and revered for all eternity.

There's funerary sculpture and death masks that tackle death directly as their bread and butter.

And then there are artists whose concepts and philosophies of death were brought into the modern

era, with people like Anna Mendietta, Felix Gonzalez-Torres,

Damien Hearst, and Andreas Serrano, getting in our faces about the fact that we are all going to die

someday. But one artist really takes the cake in terms of focusing on the everyday tragedy of death

as a subject in a very revealing and even exploitative extent. Many people might jump to say,

oh, Andy Warhol! And indeed, Warhol loved to glamorize death in his works, from replicating

tabloid images of car crashes and aviation accidents, to these truly chilling portraits of electric chairs.

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