Obituary

Bruegel's army of skeletons harvesting the living became the image of everything collapsing at once. It died when reality caught up and the painting stopped being a metaphor and started being a forecast.

Portrait: Foto: Priscila Costa (Ministério da Cultura) / Bearbeitung: Christoph Waghubinger (Lewenstein) · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Born

2016

Died

2020

Cause of death

Out-doomed by reality

Last sighting

A 'mood' caption, 2020

Resting place

Section I, Row 3

Category

art