Images of the skull in art

[Tamila]

James Ensor (born James Ensor, 1860-1949) - Belgian artist.

"The talented loner. I remember her eccentric, expressive images (skulls, skeletons, self-portraits, suffering Christ), most of which originated in his childhood memories of the goods in the gift shop of parents.'s Best works created between 1885 and 1891 years. (He later tried to repeat itself). long-overdue recognition.

1 - warming themselves skeletons. 1899
2 - Ensor with masks. 1899
3 - Death and the Masks 1897
4 - Fighting skeletons of smoked herring. 1891
5 - Production Designer skeleton. 1896-97
6 - From Laughter to Tears 1908
7 - Skeletons Fighting for the Body of a Hanged Man 1891
9 - Masks Confronting Death 1888
10 - Peches capiteaux - dominés par le mort 1904

[arkady]

A. Paransky.
Early 80's.
Paper. Mascara. Perot. 50h30sm.

[LCR]

Here, Volodya, I stole for you skull from Maastricht

Juan Giovanni Before the Naples School, 1 st half of 17 century.

This SW, Jerome, he muses on the transitory nature of the world, and make it much more convenient, having the physical evidence thereof transience - not to distract)))

And these three handsome you have? This Gericault.

[Konstantin]

Liana, as a story in pictures? Who is this man and why he considers the skull?

[operator]

And what about the Grand Picasso!

Subject skull is clearly worried about him .. but as it turned out just for fun!

More from the story of Valentin Dvinin on his visit to Picasso:

"- And this?" - I asked, drawing attention to lay on the table by the wall the skull of a large animal with horns.

- It's bull - laughed Picasso. - He's my kind of mascot. During the war I'm scared of the Germans, who looked in here. And as a souvenir offered cards with reproductions of "Guernica". They took ...

In one corner of the studio in a few rows were rotated to the wall paintings. Not less than a hundred.

- Also yours? - I asked. Picasso chuckled.

- Fakes. They my lawyer is buying so as not to clutter the market. Although among them have good work. Except that those who collect paintings, often are not interested in painting, and the signature ... "

Full Text - http://www.rg.ru/2006/10/06/picasso.html

[Vladimir]

I think interesting. Cyril who. I read here: http://art4.ru/ru/news/news_detail.p...mp;block_id=11

[Евгений]

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)

[ФАИв]

That pot of the Tretyakov Gallery - Oscar Rabin. Too bad money does not matter to shoot - something not allowed.
There are a few Krasnopevtsev. Naidu show. And Sveshnikova BP in very many things, especially of late, but all the "protection" in the fabric of the narrative.

[ФАИв]

But the skull D. Krasnopevtsev

[Meister]

Сообщение от operator

Just because those who collect paintings, often are not interested in painting, and the signature ...»

very rightly noticed by observation, which I have long rest does not. After all, there are also fakes, which are not inferior in quality to the originals of the artist. Yes, they cost others money, and it is clear why: "the idea first came up with an artist, so what came out under his brush, bears part of the idea. A fake - this is just an imitation" - but it turns out, however, that collectors in most cases, collect signatures, though there are a number of artists, which is useless to falsify by the impossibility to transfer energy))