Debout les Morts

Browsing through a recently returned book (Tribute: Frans Masereel -- An exhibition of paintings, watercolours and graphics), I now have a new name to add to the list of "artists I like." Masereel was a Belgian artist, a pacifist, who created many unsettling images inspired by the first world war and the unrest that followed. One of the most haunting and heartbreaking images in the book is from a series called Debout les Morts and shows a drowning woman clutching her drowned infant.

The skeletal images which repeat throughout Masereel's work remind me of Jose Guadalupe Posada's famed calavera prints.