テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「This frightful scene of the macabre is by the English painter Edward Burra. 💀🎨 Often the presence of skulls or skeletons in artwork was a way of reminding the living of their mortality. Here, the skeletons are almost filled with glee in this reminder. Burra has expressed this through a brightly coloured group of skeletons almost flaunting themselves in a dystopian landscape, wearing hats and make-up, and smoking pipes. They appear among pumpkins in a similar state of decay, and gather in front of a concrete pill-box. Behind, people stand by - some tellingly assuming the same poses as the skeletons - as the distant pyramid-like slag heaps loom. The skeletons seem to be mocking the human 'keeping up of appearances' in the face of visual decay, and set a chilling tone for a gloomy view of the ruined countryside which would become a significant theme in Burra’s late work. 💐 Edward Burra, Skeleton Party, c.1952–4 © The estate of Edward Burra, courtesy Lefevre Fine Art, London」11月1日 1時56分