Sentences with phrase «as a memento mori»

So here's what I did, God save my soul: as soon as I got home from buying an iPhone, I used its camera to take portraits of the e.politics «staff» posed with outdated communications technology (as memento mori), then fired up Photoshop to add in Lolcats - inspired captions.

Brown's brooding pallete of black, grays, and flashes of pale skin, depicts a private moment as a memento mori, where a woman and her reflection are joined in the form of a loosely - painted skull.

Together they function as memento mori — a meditation on memory and loss...

In fact, Desiderio began his career as a sort of reluctant expressionist, fascinated with «fugitive» gestures, each temporally suggestive — the grandly bloody splotch pictured on the right panel of When I Last Saw Paris reads as a memento mori of this fascination.

If, as she suggests, these works are to be read as memento mori, then they are of a refreshingly optimistic variety.

He is best known for a series of works (The Natural History series) in which dead animals are presented as memento mori in forms ironically appropriated from the museum of natural history rather than of art.

Not exact matches

While an admonition such as «Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return» sounds like the solemn - admonitory, the point of the memento mori is to contemplate worldly death in order to fit oneself for otherworldly life in communion with other eternal souls, not somehow to find comfort in the commonality of our mortal lot.

by Walter Chaw There's the seed of an interesting idea in Neil LaBute's Possession — something traceable to A.S. Byatt's melodramatic novel of the same name: the film's one clumsily extended trope that it is about keepsakes and the desire for memento mori and memento amor as it manifests amongst intellectuals.

Her installation in Lynden's dining room — the one room of the house that remains as it was when the Bradleys were in residence — is a kind of memento mori, re-animating the space with the relics of meals past.

Operating simultaneously as portraits and still life paintings, these works are contemporary memento mori, serving as reminders of our mortality to both artist and audience.

As he ascended to near - mythic status throughout the 1980s, the looming skeletal effigy offered a poignant and prophetic memento mori.

Anamorphic Skull (2010) doesn't successfully condense into a compacted memento mori, as it does with the predecessor it surely refers to, Hans Holbein the Younger's The Ambassadors from 1533.

We are reminded of still life as a tradition of memento mori, a deceptively domestic reminder that the brute banality of inanimate objects outlives the lifespan of all organisms.

In images when the body does not appear, objects such as dead flowers, a mirror, two clocks, soiled underwear, or a string of lights serve as a series of memento mori, reminding the viewer of the abject frailty and transience of life lived during the plague years of the AIDS crisis.

Her recent work has focused on representations of death, such as The Deceased, a canvas from 2002 which depicts the head of a resting corpse, evocative of both forensic photography and art historical memento mori.

These often serve then as containers, such as cups or memento mori.

The dark, Grimm fairy tale - like undercurrent transforms her aristocratic, operatic portraits into a contemporary vanitas or memento mori, acting as both a stylized fantasy and a Bosch - like warning.

Drawing from diverse photographic genres such as landscape, forensic, Victorian memento mori, occult, and camera-less photography, she investigates the ways in which the material conditions and specialized languages of the photographic medium shape our relations to history, power, and the production of images.

Politically freighted, highly erotic, queer, vitamin charged, moldering stuff of memento mori, deceptively simple, and delightfully absurd, as well as weird, just weird, fruit contains multitudes (of seeds — of meaning!).

Hirst's continued fascination with death is evident throughout and, using Picasso's Nature morte au crane et au pot as a starting point, part of the exhibition will present a contemporary wunderkammer — a series of memento mori reflecting a theme that recurs throughout the Murderme collection.

Many of Benes» sculptures act as cultural memento mori, manipulated with a sardonic sense of humor.

But, significantly, the show will not include recent works such as the critically panned skull paintings he showed at the Wallace Collection in London in 2009 — described by the Guardian's art critic, Adrian Searle, as «a memento mori for a reputation».

Emerging as a prominent artist in New York during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Bleckner's paintings, like memento mori, often suggest meditations on the body, health, disease, and especially AIDS - related death.

Still life can be a celebration of material pleasures such as food and wine, or often a warning of the ephemerality of these pleasures and of the brevity of human life (see memento mori).