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The phrase memento mori is Latin for “remember that you must die”. In the art world, a genre with the same name gained popularity throughout Europe in the 1500s. The most common motif depicted in the genre is a skull, often accompanied by bones. Others include coffins, hourglasses and wilting flowers. With ancient roots in Stoic philosophy ...
- Turn of The Century Painting
- The Prevalence of Skull Symbolism Today
- American Artists
- Contemporary Sculpture
- The Catacombs of Paris, France
Still Life with Skull (1898) by French post-impressionist Paul Cezanne, in a number of still lifes, treats the skull less as a symbol of death than as another round fruit. Color modulations and a plastic sense of space serve as a dress rehearsal for the Cubism that would soon catch fire across the European art world. Known more for his apples, oran...
Many of the skull images we encounter these days are often cartoons, drawings or human anatomical studies. Dread, fear and trembling seem to have yielded to irony, humor and song. Skulls with smoldering cigarettes or engaging in animated conversation are the food of slapstick and carnivals, and often obliquely tease out Hamlet’s doleful soliloquy o...
Andy Warhol’s dance with death, documented over a lifetime of car crashes, electric chairs, dead celebrities and just plain old death finally arrived with the classic memento mori, Skulls (1976). The group of silkscreened skulls stands at the other end of the spectrum of his production, if you began with his Flowers (1964), a silkscreened grid of h...
Self (1991), by British artist Marc Quinn might be the only skull that is not a skull. The frozen replica of the artist’s head produced from 10 pints of his own blood is a vanitas extraordinaire. Kept frozen in a glass box, Selfis both a shroud and a self-portrait. And Quinn, an odd archivist and collector himself, reexamines his head every five ye...
Monetizing death and its coterie of object-symbols is clearly a booming business, particularly in Paris where hardly a tourist passes through The City of Light without a walk through one of its darkest passages. Père Lachaise, Le Cimetière du Montparnasse or Le Cimetière du Montmartre are large, gorgeous cemeteries but they are nearly beyond burial...
The first full-fledged museum survey of Brown’s work in New York since she made the city her home, Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid assembles a select group of some fifty paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes from across her career to explore the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, mirroring, and vanitas—symbolic ...
Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you must die’. A basic memento mori painting would be a portrait with a skull but other symbols commonly found are hour glasses or clocks, extinguished or guttering candles, fruit, and flowers.
Memento mori are reminders of the inevitability of death... and Dutch masterpieces are full of them. Food will rot, flowers will wilt, candles burn out, and skulls...well, skulls speak for...
Sep 14, 2017 · Memento mori paintings, drawings, and sculptures can range from blunt depictions of skulls, decaying food, and broken objects to subtler examples whose symbolism is easy to miss.
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Jun 23, 2019 · Memento mori, which translates to “remember that you will die,” may seem morbid to some, but was a discipline that was held in high esteem. This practice asked people to detach from their worldly goods and luxuries.
