Humans have been making art for a long time, starting in caves roughly 40,000 years ago. From those early beginnings we have constantly striven to accurately portray and make sense of the world that we find ourselves in. But as sunlit and enlightened as the opening of a cave may be, there are equally dark places the farther in you go: foreboding, dangerous, filled with fear and horror. We make art about those places too. Welcome to Artis Obscura, a podcast and web series where we ponder and explore art from the dark end of the cave.
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Humans have been making art for a long time, starting in caves roughly 40,000 years ago. From those early beginnings we have constantly striven to accurately portray and make sense of the world that we find ourselves in. But as sunlit and enlightened as the opening of a cave may be, there are equally dark places the farther in you go: foreboding, dangerous, filled with fear and horror. We make art about those places too. Welcome to Artis Obscura, a podcast and web series where we ponder and explore art from the dark end of the cave.
Follow along as host Kathi Rick explores unnerving art throughout the ages.
Patreon.com/artisobscura
Ep 1 | Worms And Ashes: Art Inspired by the Black Death
Artis Obscura
30 minutes 50 seconds
5 years ago
Ep 1 | Worms And Ashes: Art Inspired by the Black Death
Host Kathi Rick explores art inspired by the Black Death as well as the circumstances surrounding making art during and immediately after the most devastating event in European history. She discusses Bruegel's Triumph of Death, memento mori, collective amnesia, the dance of death, transi tombs, and similarities to the world we are living in today.
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Humans have been making art for a long time, starting in caves roughly 40,000 years ago. From those early beginnings we have constantly striven to accurately portray and make sense of the world that we find ourselves in. But as sunlit and enlightened as the opening of a cave may be, there are equally dark places the farther in you go: foreboding, dangerous, filled with fear and horror. We make art about those places too. Welcome to Artis Obscura, a podcast and web series where we ponder and explore art from the dark end of the cave.
Follow along as host Kathi Rick explores unnerving art throughout the ages.
Patreon.com/artisobscura
