Fed by the Shadow of Death - Renaissance painters were masters of light,...
The cultural bloom of the Italian – and wider European – Renaissance was fed by the shadow of death. The bubonic plague was carried by fleas traveling on rodents, who then hitched rides along the...
View ArticleBetween the Abstract and the Real - Death, architecture and the public...
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....
View ArticleA Moment of Life and Death - Sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch vanitas...
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...
View ArticleThe Life and Death of Marina Abramovic - The grandmother of performance art...
One can’t talk about avant-garde art without mentioning Marina Abramovic. The Serbian artist carved a name for herself in the art world through her cathartic, sometimes disturbing performances. Her...
View ArticleThe Art of the Die-In - Meaningful visual images stir emotions
Imagine this: You’re out for a walk in your favorite park. As you stroll along, you notice that there are more people about than you’re used to seeing. Suddenly, the woman in front of you keels forward...
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