Writer Skeleton: from Day of the Dead These skeletons are inspired by Latin American Day of the Dead folk art, and the works of the great Mexican graphic artist, José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). Posada was best know for his "calaverars", skeletons that actively engage in everyday activities and, with humor and irony, show the absurdity of the human condition. His work was based on the traditonal art of All Soul's Day (held on the second of November since the late thirteenth century), but Posada made his skeletons both more lively and more political. Folk art is not a static form but, as an expresson of the soul of a people, is a forever changing commentary on contemporary life.

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