{"product_id":"arnold-bocklin-self-portrait-with-death-playing-the-fiddle-print","title":"Arnold Böcklin Self-Portrait with Death playing the Fiddle Print","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"hero-headline\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThere is a skeleton standing behind you right now. You just cannot hear the fiddle yet.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"emoji-accent\"\u003e🎻\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBöcklin was a Swiss Symbolist painter of extraordinary intensity, a man who produced mythological dreamscapes populated by sirens, centaurs, and the spirits of the island of the dead. Born in Basel in 1827, he spent much of his career in Italy, soaking up the ancient world and transmuting it into brooding, sensuous canvases that anticipate Surrealism by half a century. Salvador Dalí adored him. Giorgio de Chirico called him a direct inspiration. Yet for all his fantastical repertoire, nothing Böcklin ever painted carries quite the same charge as this single, devastating self-portrait. \u003c\/span\u003e🖼️\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWrite with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFascinatingly, Böcklin reportedly added Death to the composition after the painting was already under way, turning what had begun as a straightforward self-portrait into something altogether more unsettling. He is said to have suffered significant ill health throughout his life, and the deaths of several of his fourteen children cast a long shadow. One does not invent an image like this from nothing.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"emoji-accent\"\u003e💀\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe painting also carries a wry, almost darkly comic quality that is easy to miss on a first encounter: Death is not especially good at the violin. The bow is awkward, the posture ragged. Böcklin's muse, it seems, is an enthusiastic amateur. 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