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Everyone has a dark side. These artists chose to embrace theirs to create exquisitely haunting imagery. In this episode, we are exploring macabre art; a world of nightmarish landscapes, death scenes, and disfigurement. Listeners beware, some of the subject matter is quite dark.
In the Episode:
- The beginnings of macabre: Danse Macabre and the Black Death
- Bosch, king of Hell
- Francis Bacon: the man, the masochist
- Our modern macabre favorites
- An all-new Horror Icon of the Week!