| A classic vanitas, the painting reminds us that time and its consequences cannot be slowed. |
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| In 1626 he moved to Leiden, where he painted vanitas subjects and increasingly adopted the monochrome palette of Haarlem still-life painters. |
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| The motif of the skull and the glittering diamonds are both classic vanitas symbols. |
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| The shift from vanitas to anatomical drawing was a critical moment. |
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| Art historians have argued that this is a vanitas image, a chilling reminder that in the midst of all this wealth, power, and learning, death comes to us all. |
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| The human skull is familiar from the tradition of vanitas paintings where it serves to indicate the futility of human aspirations by stressing the ephemerality of human life. |
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| As a result of his filiation with vanitas painters and sculptors, the artist denounces the relativity of knowledge and the fragility of life when subject to a race against time. |
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| Although Tinguely's later work is rich in vanitas motives and features a manifold array of references to the Dance of Death, they are particularly clustered in this installation. |
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| In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic composition of painting or sculptures meant to be a reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure and certainty of death. |
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| Seen as examples of the vanitas genre, with soon-to-wilt flowers warning of the fleetingness of life, they may seem to belong to an obsolete moral universe. |
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| In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life. |
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| Or perhaps instead a particularly loose handling of the classical theme of vanitas, in which watches and hourglasses were standard motifs? |
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| Gongora's inspired veiled ekphrases, Wagschal argues, ultimately play a substantial role in the iconographic vanitas tradition. |
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| It is this sincerity of street art, this acknowledgment of the perishable, of vanitas vanitatum, that makes it attractive and valuable to the passer-by. |
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| Still life images often refer to the vanitas that historically depicted objects as the ephemeral of life, and reminded viewers of the inevitability of death. |
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| The use of crumbled or folded paper standing out from the plane surface of the canvas was a recurring motif of the Vanitas trompe l' oeil paintings. |
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| Staschke has said that he draws inspiration from Dutch and Flemish Vanitas still-life painting. |
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| Meanwhile the Vanitas restaurant is designed to be like a classical Italian palace, with handmade wall decorations featuring the Grottesche Italiane. |
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| And Roy Powell is best known for his works in oils, particularly his long-running series of Vanitas paintings which he embarked upon following his retirement from teaching. |
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| Another uses 3-D glasses to make a 3-D piece of art called Vanitas. |
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