Antes del baile de máscaras
1923
Max Beckmann invites us into a cramped, anxious dressing room in this 1923 scene, where a group of eccentric characters prepares for a masked ball. Despite the festive occasion, the mood is tense and surreal—one figure is blindfolded, another looks utterly bored, and someone clutches a mask like a shield. Rooted in Expressionism, the scratchy, frantic lines reflect the psychological turmoil of post-WWI Germany, suggesting that the real masks are the ones we wear to hide our true selves from a chaotic world.
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