vanitas:
The vanitas is one of the symbolic work of art. vanitas it is linked with still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre linked with symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability, As applied to vanitas art, the word is drawn from the biblical book.
The vanitas has a lot of symbols there are two different types the first one is still life object and the second one is still life nature. object such as skulls, rotten fruit, bubbles, smoke, watches, hourglasses, and musical instruments. Natures such as Fruit, flowers and butterflies, birds, apple and a peeled lemon before it was an expensive food items. Every single vanitas symbols has different meaning for it.
1. Skull is reminder of death
2. Bubbles means the shortness …show more content…
when artist choose their subject matter they take long to find out which subject they want to do because the subject an items is the main point of the artwork, choosing the overall subject matter of the artwork piece. The objects in a still life painting have a lot of meanings like religious, social, cultural and personal.
3. Often when the artiest choose to draw a still life drawing about death and shot life the like to draw it on the dark because the darkness represent theses things. also because it is depressing things and sad so that what make the choose the dark to draw in. when parties trying to draw something about joyful things and happy things they use bright colours and the bright colours is what usual represent happiness in still life drawings.
4. Greece was really into the Egypt culture which is impacted still life. By drawing different type of story which is talking about religious things like god and other things in the Egyptian culture this type of drawing is really different than the other still life (like death, not living object ect..). when they draw a really religious drawing it strongly affect the still life drawings by adding different thing which is related to god and religious
The vanitas is one of the symbolic work of art. vanitas it is linked with still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre linked with symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability, As applied to vanitas art, the word is drawn from the biblical book.
The vanitas has a lot of symbols there are two different types the first one is still life object and the second one is still life nature. object such as skulls, rotten fruit, bubbles, smoke, watches, hourglasses, and musical instruments. Natures such as Fruit, flowers and butterflies, birds, apple and a peeled lemon before it was an expensive food items. Every single vanitas symbols has different meaning for it.
1. Skull is reminder of death
2. Bubbles means the shortness …show more content…
when artist choose their subject matter they take long to find out which subject they want to do because the subject an items is the main point of the artwork, choosing the overall subject matter of the artwork piece. The objects in a still life painting have a lot of meanings like religious, social, cultural and personal.
3. Often when the artiest choose to draw a still life drawing about death and shot life the like to draw it on the dark because the darkness represent theses things. also because it is depressing things and sad so that what make the choose the dark to draw in. when parties trying to draw something about joyful things and happy things they use bright colours and the bright colours is what usual represent happiness in still life drawings.
4. Greece was really into the Egypt culture which is impacted still life. By drawing different type of story which is talking about religious things like god and other things in the Egyptian culture this type of drawing is really different than the other still life (like death, not living object ect..). when they draw a really religious drawing it strongly affect the still life drawings by adding different thing which is related to god and religious