These 11,000-year-old skulls from Tell Aswad were carefully plastered and reshaped to preserve the faces of the dead. It’s ...

Rather, a massive, impatient art crowd overwhelmed the ... On display were his calaveras, the satirical skull and skeleton illustrations he made for Day of the Dead, which he printed on cheap ...

a website that sells handmade Day of the Dead crafts and promotes the holiday's rituals, sugar skulls — calaveras de azúcar in Spanish — are traditional folk art from southern Mexico.

Day of the Dead ofrendas (altars ... (Read more about pan de muerto.) Sugar skulls are part of a sugar art tradition brought by 17th-century Italian missionaries. Pressed in molds and decorated ...

A Dia de los Muertos altar without sugar skulls is like a Charms Blow Pop without the bubble gum inside. It's a must-have. Sure, you can be lazy and go buy pre-decorated skulls, but if really want ...

Crafts don't have to cost a lot. Visit the dollar store to pick up plastic skulls to transform. I picked up several of these and used them for all kinds of decorations and gifts. - Plastic skulls ...

However, the unity of life and death continues to be the dominant theme of the art, tradition ... “During contemporary Day of the Dead festivities, people commonly wear skull masks and eat ...

You spot a celebrity in a beautiful, intricate Día de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead) get-up, their face painted with decorated skulls in the ... expressing their art and representing my culture ...

The Magic Carpet display: Check out The Magic Carpet, the latest FooFoo Fest art project in the ... The sugar skulls associated with the Day of the Dead celebrations represent the soul of a ...

The serious tone of Day of the Dead is accompanied by rich and colourful decorations. The carnivalesque atmosphere, and the sugar skulls, are a representation of the belief that death is simply a ...