When thinking about this topic and how to address it I first began to really try and understand the meaning of macabre. The official definition is “disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury” and its implication can be clearly seen in the images we have viewed in class. The whole idea of the macabre is thought to have come from a dark time in history and represents more than simply grisly images.
The artwork I decided to truly focus on is Hans Baldung Grien, Three Ages of Woman and Death, Germany, c. 1510. The overall image catches ones eye because like other macabre paintings we’ve seen in class this one has the stages before death. All the other ones we viewed seemed to head straight into the …show more content…
This is something that is spoken about by Binski in context another interesting macabre art work by the name of The Three Living and the Three Dead. Which all has to do with a legend, with the overall message that no matter who you believe yourself to be death will still come for you and you will decompose just like everyone else, so reconsider your life choices. Upon inspection of the artwork a reference to this them/story can be clear seen. The young woman in the front seems to be much more concerned with her beauty than anything else and death/ her older self is holding the hourglass above her head in order to remind the viewer that death is just a few sand drops …show more content…
Binski mentions the fall of man and how it connects to the decay of flesh. The whole meaning of the decay is to once again remind humans of their mistakes. Since the fall of man flesh has fallen in the same matter. The whole bases of decay then relates to the fact that we are no longer welcome into the place in which we could essentially live forever. This idea of decay can be seen clearly in the image of the decayed woman in our painting. Her hair has fallen out, her torso is split and her knees are just completely bone. The overall message is that decay, especially when it comes to vanity, is inevitable and nasty, but your real beauty can be saved in
The artwork I decided to truly focus on is Hans Baldung Grien, Three Ages of Woman and Death, Germany, c. 1510. The overall image catches ones eye because like other macabre paintings we’ve seen in class this one has the stages before death. All the other ones we viewed seemed to head straight into the …show more content…
This is something that is spoken about by Binski in context another interesting macabre art work by the name of The Three Living and the Three Dead. Which all has to do with a legend, with the overall message that no matter who you believe yourself to be death will still come for you and you will decompose just like everyone else, so reconsider your life choices. Upon inspection of the artwork a reference to this them/story can be clear seen. The young woman in the front seems to be much more concerned with her beauty than anything else and death/ her older self is holding the hourglass above her head in order to remind the viewer that death is just a few sand drops …show more content…
Binski mentions the fall of man and how it connects to the decay of flesh. The whole meaning of the decay is to once again remind humans of their mistakes. Since the fall of man flesh has fallen in the same matter. The whole bases of decay then relates to the fact that we are no longer welcome into the place in which we could essentially live forever. This idea of decay can be seen clearly in the image of the decayed woman in our painting. Her hair has fallen out, her torso is split and her knees are just completely bone. The overall message is that decay, especially when it comes to vanity, is inevitable and nasty, but your real beauty can be saved in