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Death Shall Have No Dominion
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Medium: Oil
Genre: Still Life
Artwork Size: 25cm (w) x 25cm (h)
Uploaded on: Tuesday 3rd Jun, 2014
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Medium: Oil
Genre: Still Life
Artwork Size: 25cm (w) x 25cm (h)
Uploaded on: Tuesday 3rd Jun, 2014
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In Western art the skull often symbolised a memento mori, and was sometimes used as an aid to meditation by monks (especially the Franciscans and Jesuits). But in relation to my painting it represents something different- if you look at a human skull you cannot help but notice that it is smiling, a perpetual grin adorning naked bone. This for me is a message from Nature telling us that there is no fear in death, it is merely another stage in a process. The title of the painting is a slight deviation from the title of a famous Dylan Thomas poem.
