#death cart

[charnel-grounds]

“La muerte” — A vintage New Mexican death cart

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[midnightimaging]

Plague Doctor

[philamuseum]

Me rolling up to work on the first day of October. 

 "Death Cart (Carreta de la Muerte)," around 1880–1900, made in the United 

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪Death Cart.

Maker: Los Hermanos Penitentes Society

Date: 1890-1910

Medium: Wood, hide, hair, pigment.

[thefugitivesaint]

José Inéz Herrera, 'Death Cart' (La Doña Sebastiana), ''200 Years of American Sculpture'' by Tom Armstrong, 1976 Source “Not much is known about artist José Inéz Herrera. He worked in El Rito, New Mexico, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. He is known as either El Rito Santero or Death Cart Santero. Santeros, artists who created holy images, learned from local Pueblo Indians how to make paints from plants and minerals in the area. They combined these regional paints with imported oil paints from Mexico to create distinctive sculptures and paintings for Catholic New Mexican churches, homes, and worship spaces. This sculpture is made of wood, gesso (primer paint), silk, and animal hair. The skeletal figure represents a long religious tradition within the Catholic Church. Images of Death were associated with Holy Week rituals in Spain, Italy, Mexico, and New Mexico. In Catholic tradition, Holy Week is the week before Easter, the day Jesus rose from the dead.” .... “The image of Death is an image from the Catholic tradition of the Passion of Christ. The Passion story includes all of the events leading up to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, as well as the Crucifixion itself. The skeletal figure in this cart represents Death. The artist exaggerated different parts of the figure to create a sense of drama. He gave the skeleton long, thin arms and legs and carved out deep-set, hollow eyes. The skeleton’s neck and torso are also very long, and its chin comes to a dramatic point. The large crooked teeth have been arranged into what looks like a smile. The Saturday before Easter, carts like this one would have been pulled in a procession, symbolizing the brief period of Death’s triumph on Earth before Christ rose from the dead, escaping Death’s clutches. Sometimes a Death Cart would follow Christ on the road to Crucifixion, haunting the last stages of the Passion. During the rest of the year, these figures were used as a reminder of the inevitability of death.” (Source)

[philamuseum]

Need some help getting into a spooky mood? We have a skele-TON of them.

More Art Monday is brought to you by Art 24/7. 

“Three Dancing Skeletons,” early to mid-19th century, by James Akin 

“Jayne Headstone Carving, Marblehead, Massachusetts,” 1948 (negative); 1976–79 (print), by Ansel Adams © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust 

“Skeleton Mask,” 19th century, made in Bhutan or India 

“The Courtesan Jigokudayū Sees Herself as a Skeleton in the Mirror of Hell,” 1880s, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 

“Strangling Calaveras,” 1942, by Leopoldo Méndez © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City 

“Death Cart (Carreta de la Muerte),” c. 1880–1900, made in New Mexico 

[alcofrybas]

Death Cart

[itskeegstho]

I can't wait until I get my life back on track so I can go to school and learn more about fabrication and cars in general. I love it so much. I want to spend the rest of my life racing cars and making stupid shit like death carts for people stupid enough to drive them. Like me. I want death carts, drift missiles, absurd grip cars, all that insane looking cheap appearing fast as all hell machines that are fun beyond anything I've done in this life. I love cars, all the ways to make it so you are the only one in the world with a car modded like yours.