vanitas
”Vanitas vanitatum et omnia Vanitas” was the writing each of these artwork carried, reminding the viewers of the transience and brevity of human life, power, beauty and wealth, as well as of the insignificance of all material things and achievements. - Widewalls
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Still Lifes That Will Lure You To The Dark Side
MNÉMOSYNE: When Contemporary Art and the Art of the Past Meet
Mnemosyne was the Greek goddess of memory, and the mother of the Muses by Zeus but to be honest, I could not make the link between her mythology and the topic of the exhibition. Then I found out that the title isactually based on the approach outlined by a German art historian, Aby Warburg (1866-1929), in his publication Mnemosyne Atlas, whose focus was on the complexity of images and how they interrelate rather than their simple classification.
Still Lifes That Will Lure You To The Dark Side
MNÉMOSYNE: When Contemporary Art and the Art of the Past Meet
Mnemosyne was the Greek goddess of memory, and the mother of the Muses by Zeus but to be honest, I could not make the link between her mythology and the topic of the exhibition. Then I found out that the title isactually based on the approach outlined by a German art historian, Aby Warburg (1866-1929), in his publication Mnemosyne Atlas, whose focus was on the complexity of images and how they interrelate rather than their simple classification.