In the paintings of this exhibition, vanitas is portrayed through many symbols: the human skull, soap bubbles ready to pop, flowers and fruits with the first blotches of spoilage, insects and seashells, burnt out candles, crystal goblets, and signs of wealth and power like money, jewels and crowns.
The reasons for the appeal of such images in a time of prosperity and the circumstances of its decline in popularity are two of the questions examined in this exhibition. The widespread influences of vanitas painting went well beyond the realm if Dutch art.
In the last half of the twentieth century, American artists began to reimagine these themes; in a wide array of formats...Painters from Georgia O'Keefe to the contemporary Daniel Sprick show the full scope of modern vanitas.
The combined American and European paintings of the exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts presents for the first time, the dramatic relations between the older and more contemporary vanitas images.
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