Vanitas Still Life

A Vanitas is often a symbolic work of art with connections to concepts like the inevitability of death, being consumed by greed and vanity, and how one’s life is being spent. They were most popular in the 1600’s and were mostly done by Dutch painters.

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Sharon Core

Sharon Core is an American Artist and Photographer, born in Louisiana (1965) she studied painting at the University of Georgia and Photography at Yale University of Art. She has won numerous awards and has many exhibitions for her work. In this work she recreates the style of vanitas paintings but using a camera. It is incredibly recognisable and unique and her history as a painter helped fuel her to edit and create photos like this.

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My Images-

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I attempted to edit mine in a similar style to make them seem less realistic, making them seem softer and a more pleasant colour scheme.