メトロポリタン美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (メトロポリタン美術館Instagram)「There seems to be a bit of skullduggery afoot 💀💀💀⁣ ⁣ Can you spot the skulls in #CecilyBrown’s works? From the grand altarpieces and frescoes of the Renaissance to popular illustrations of the Victorian era, there is no more literal reminder of our mortality than the representation of a skull: a so-called memento mori. ⁣ ⁣ Often featured in painting genres such as still life and vanitas, or vanity, the death’s-head personifies time’s swift passage no matter the youth or beauty of the subject—or the viewer. ⁣ ⁣ These works display Cecily Brown’s frequent use of skulls that are simultaneously tricks of the eye incorporating two images at once.⁣ ⁣ For example, in “Aujourd’hui Rose” (image 2), two girls in ruffled white dresses sit beneath a grottolike archway, holding a small lapdog between them. Brown’s source—a popular postcard from about 1900 inscribed “Pink today, tomorrow . . .”—presented a visual pun in which a sweet vignette of youthful tenderness is haunted by the overlay of a skull whose eye sockets align with the girls’ heads. ⁣ ⁣ Brown’s striking version is her first painting to employ a double-image memento mori. Its sepia-like palette has a nostalgic tonality that matches the late Victorian meditation on life’s swift passage.⁣ FINAL WEEK! See these and more on view in “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid,” on view through December 3. @metmodern⁣ ⁣ 🎨 All works by Cecily Brown. Courtesy the artist. #DeathAndTheMaid⁣ ⁣ (1) Untitled (Vanity), 2005. Oil on linen. Private collection.⁣ ⁣ (2) Aujourd’hui Rose, 2005. Oil on linen. Private collection.⁣ ⁣ (3) All Is Vanity (after Gilbert), 2006. Monotype. Private collection, courtesy Two Palms, New York.⁣ ⁣ (4) Untitled (Aujord’hui Rose), ca. 2005. Goauche and watercolor on paper. Private collection.⁣ ⁣ (5) Untitled (Sled), ca. 1997. Watercolor on paper. Private collection.⁣ ⁣ (6) Gossip (after G. A. Wotherspoon), ca. 2007. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Private collection.」11月29日 4時50分