I was reading about symbols for ‘time’ in art tonight and came across this passage in https:\/\/www.artmajeur.com\/en\/magazine\/5-art-history\/the-representation-of-time-passing-in-art\/330158<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“At the very beginning of the 17th century, paintings of a new genre appeared,\u00a0the Vanities<\/strong>\u00a0. This name takes its root from the term “vain”, which refers to what is empty, illusory. These are paintings classified in the genre of still lifes, and contain a set of emblems and objects whose possession seems futile, derisory as in the work shown above by\u00a0Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674), Vanit\u00e9<\/strong>\u00a0. Among the most common character-defining elements are the skull, the extinguished candle, or the silence of\u00a0musical instruments<\/a>\u00a0as symbols of death. The hourglass or the clock, as symbols of the passage of time, but also soap bubbles symbolizing both the fleetingness of life and earthly goods<\/strong>. A\u00a0faded flower<\/a>\u00a0, like a tulip or a rose, reflecting the image of life that will end sooner or later.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I often take photos of foam bubbles on the beach,and I suppose I’ve just thought of them in terms of abstract patterns produced by the waves, but this another way of regarding such transient entities. Interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was reading about symbols for ‘time’ in art tonight and came across this passage in https:\/\/www.artmajeur.com\/en\/magazine\/5-art-history\/the-representation-of-time-passing-in-art\/330158 “At the very beginning of the 17th century, paintings of a new genre appeared,\u00a0the Vanities\u00a0. This name takes its root from the term “vain”, which refers to what is empty, illusory. These are paintings classified in the genre… Continue reading Foam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,22,8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-1-feb","category-ma-1-research-practice","category-home","category-1-1-research","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}