Mortality Salience

Mortality Salience, awareness of the inevitability of one's death. A vanitas is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, often contrasting symbols of wealth and symbols of ephemerality and death. Still-life painting has been a genre that most clearly demonstrates ownership and the purchasing act of humans throughout history. As Roland Barthes claimed still-life painting is a "commodity empire". The genre of still-life illustrates the glamor of wealth that affluent people of the upper class have earned through colonizing people and regional places. Still life is about what power gives you personally. It is a genre that hilari...View all