Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle - Arnold Böcklin #art #history #painting #fyp

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As a symbolist painter, Arnold Böcklin often incorporated the theme of death in his paintings due to the difficult circumstances he experienced in his life.
In his painting Death Playing the Violin, Böcklin adds death, symbolized by a skeleton playing a single-string violin right behind him. Feeling death almost on his back, Böcklin seems more focused on listening to the music, as if to convey that when the last string of the violin breaks, the music will stop, rather than looking at the viewer.
Similarly, death seems to whisper something into Böcklin’s ear, approaching him with a cruel smile.
The artist’s use of color and the ambiguity of the background intensify the eerie atmosphere.