Hallowe'en Advice
José Guadalupe Posada offers some spooky wisdom in 'Hallowe’en Advice,' featuring a tiny skeleton standing alone in a yellow square. This little calavera carries a crate while a Spanish poem below warns us not to trust people because they're treacherous—unlike skeletons, who just bare their teeth! Posada created hundreds of these skeletal figures to satirize Mexican politics and society in the early 1900s. His iconic 'calaveras' became the visual foundation for Mexico's Day of the Dead celebrations, proving that a simple skeleton can carry a lot of cultural weight.
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