Sentences with phrase «skulls as mementoes»

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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.

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».