Sentences with phrase «own memento mori»

In the Middle Ages, the memento mori eclipsed the solemn - admonitory mode.

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.

The sign is there to read: memento mori!

Yet like the others Treves also acknowledges the reflection of his darker self in this living memento mori: Merrick is «visibly worse than in «86 -» 87.

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as soon as I got home from buying an iPhone, I used its camera to take portraits of the e.politics «staff» posed with outdated communications technology (as memento mori), then fired up Photoshop to add in Lolcats - inspired captions.

Given the time frame — just a decade or two before Europe is engulfed in nearly a quarter century of turmoil — the film becomes an elegy of sorts: a secular memento mori, an after - the - fact portrait of loss and mortality.

A study in paranoia and fear, Shults» It Comes At Night is a well - crafted, perfectly paced memento mori that pulsates with dread, but stumbles over its suspenseful storytelling to reach a nonconclusion.

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.

The story spans four eras (Anderson and cinematographer Robert D. Yeoman complement each period with the period - appropriate aspect ratio), starting with a present - day memento mori in a cemetery and moving back and back and back to 1932.

Mirrors play a role (the shattering of them, in particular), while walls of pictures again remind that memory and perception are aided and perverted by the mementos mori we use to line our boxes.

There is a memento mori message here - time is fleeting, and even the most diligent scholarship can never resurrect the past.

Who is sending her memento mori carved with her initials?

The book is both a memento mori and an elegy, a lasting monument to the lost.

Calista Langley is an elite matchmaker for wealthy Victorian souls in London, but things get creepy when someone begins sending her memento mori carved with her initials.

When matchmaker Calista Langley begins receiving memento mori engraved with her initials from an anonymous sender, she's more than a little frightened.

The message of memento mori is often found in Traditional Balinese literary products.

Memento mori 2 is a 3D point and click investigation - adventure game developed by centauri Production and published by Lace mamba Global.

2017 — LOG at LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC, curated by Maria Britton — AWKWARD MOMENTS, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY 2015 — SACRED PLACES, Smithy Center for the Arts, Cooperstown, NY 2014 — MEMENTO MORI, Field Projects, New York, curated by Deborah Brown — CROWD, curated by Andrea Brown for The Outsider's Studio Collective, Liberty, NY 2013 — NYFA@GOVERNORS, curated by New York Foundation For The Arts for Governor's Island Art Fair, New York 2012 — DAY JOB, curated by Nina Katchadourian, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, and Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2011 — HEAD CASE, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, curated by Laurel Farrin — 30: A BROOKLYN SALON, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer — CHAIN LETTER, Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA — NEXT Art Fair, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart, Chicago 2010 — DAY JOB, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, curated by Nina Katchadourian 2009 — ONCE UPON A TIME AND NOW, Evanston Art Center, IL — THE HAIRY WHO AND IMAGIST LEGACY IN CONTEMPORARY ART, at ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart, curated by Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago — ART CHICAGO, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart (Also 2006, 2007, 2008) 2007 — THE MISSISSIPPI STORY, Mississippi Museum of Art 2006/7 — RAGDALE, Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Margaret Hawkins 2006 — SALTONSTALL: THE FIRST TEN YEARS, curated by Andrea Inselmann Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY — RISD BIENNIAL, Exit Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr — ARTLA, Linda Warren Gallery Booth, Santa Monica Civic Center, CA — ART ADORED: Icons from the Permanent Collection, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson

Its message strays, becoming evocative rather than declarative, no longer a functioning exit, but a memento mori.

Drawing from the symbolism attached to skulls and their emblematic links to the inevitability of death, Life is Only One makes allusions to Dutch memento mori paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries and incites emotions of pain, loneliness, helplessness and despair.

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.

A contemporary version of a memento mori, the piece connects the viewer with a longstanding tradition of artists, poets, and philosophers.

In the work of 1982, the corpse of a German eagle is placed horizontally — or more specifically, upside down — whereas in the second work we sense the sinister presence of an inverted skull, a memento mori since ancient times.

Frances Stark is currently on view at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco for her third solo show, «MEMENTO MORI: towards a compendium of disseminations».

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This modern take on the long tradition of memento mori art was inspired by a blood - red picture from the Hubble telescope showing a star that was about to explode.

memento mori 2014 polychromed clay, collage / acrylic on canvas, collage on polychromed acrylic enhanced plaster 28 x 18 x 18 inches (71.1 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm) ARG # STM2014 - 003

His work can be said to play between the traditional still - life or memento mori, and the voyeurism of the cheeky snapshot.

The exhibition is perhaps a memento mori of our own scientific and social systems — now the apogee of human achievement.

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.

Of course it's about «exploring issues which affect us all... around ageing, memento mori, the transience of life,» and «themes around gender, masquerade, performance and the idea of the self.»

Two themes recurring frequently in both Hirst's own work and the Murderme collection, are memento mori and the animal kingdom.

What remains of the notion of memento mori?

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.

Bhabha's abject pilgrim is both a prophet and a memento mori.

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

With Untitled, Stingel puts forward both a meta - image and a memento mori image that through the very process of painting investigates the passage of time, notions of absence and presence, and authenticity and replication.

Their most erotic aspects always remain hidden and, like a traditional memento mori, these still lifes juxtapose sensual fullness with physical decay.

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.

All are memento mori, to some extent, and so are the films.

Barthes deconstructs this correlation and the concept of memento mori, roughly translated to mean «remember your mortality,» and how photography exposes the vulnerable temporality of life.

In his third solo exhibition at this gallery, the indefatigable Josh Smith employs a form of morbid humor through a study of memento mori that treads the line between irony and sincerity.

Our second collaboration with the Met is an exhibition at the Cloisters focusing on the virtuoso art of miniature carving, which will feature 50 or so figurines, miniature altars, prayer nuts, monstrances, skulls and other memento mori boxwood pendants (22 February — 21 May).

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 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.

The «Memento mori» or vanitas is evoked by Wim Delvoye, who questions religious beliefs in his crucifix pendants in the form of a Möbius band.

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.