Thursday, June 5, 2008

TYPES OF VANITAS


THIS IS THE VANITAS PAINTING THAT I AM GOING TO USE FOR MY PIECE.














There are no requirements in Vanitas paintings. Every Vanitas painting is different and they each include different objects. Many vanitas paintings use skulls. The skull represents both life and death. The life being that once thst skull was a living person, and the death meaning that that person has dies and all that is left is their skull. Vanitas represent time and how it passes, thats why a lot of symbols, like living objects and clocks, are used commonly.

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