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Category Archives: Soulful Expressions
Immortalized in Stone: Mayan Death Masks
The secrets of the Mayans reveal death traditions steeped in beauty, creativity and the "transcendence of death"
Paris, 2012 — Thousands of miles away from his native Mexico, at the Pinacothèque museum, the eyes of a Mayan god meet those of spectators from around the world. He is a part of an exhibit that reveals, for the … Continue reading
Sarah Bernhardt: Sleeping Beside Death
How the eccentric and fabulous Sarah Bernhardt shook up society's taboos about death and dying
Celebrity has drifted far from its golden Hollywood age. Instead, we have reality show stars and pop-up personalities whose talents remain nonexistent or ambiguous at best. But if ever there was an actress who rightfully captivated the public eye with … Continue reading
Mortality in Your Hands: “The Pocket Size Tlingit Coffin” by Gérard Titus-Carmel
What if you could carry your mortality in your pocket? Gérard Titus-Carmel's powerful reflection on life and death
It took Gérard Titus-Carmel (1942-present) over a year to finish his work, The Pocket Size Tlingit Coffin. Completed in July of 1976, Coffin is made up of 127 drawings (and one physical model) of various sizes and techniques of the … Continue reading
“Camille on Her Death Bed” by Impressionst Claude Monet, 1879
The artist preserved the image and memory of his wife on canvas as she neared death
There is no better poster-child for impressionism than Claude Monet. Even if you don’t know much about Monet, chances are you’ve seen some form of his water lilies on everything from mugs to mousepads. The French painter was born Oscar-Claude … Continue reading
A Moment of Life and Death
Sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch vanitas paintings weave life and death into a single, still moment
Life is fleeting, and death apparently eternal. Still life paintings that came out of the Netherlands in the late 1500s through the 1700s, known as vanitas, gather symbolic objects of death into a memorialized moment, halting the processes of both … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Van Utrecht, Art, Death in art, Dutch Painting, Life and Death, Painting, SevenPonds, Still Life, transience, Vanitas
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Between the Abstract and the Real
Death, architecture and the public imagination
How do we come to terms with something as abstract as death? Our own heavy, very real flesh will one day be in another indistinct form. The sacred bodies of our loved ones are subject to the same fate. What … Continue reading
