1. Skull Symbolism in Art History 3. Leonardo da Vinci & Anatomy 5. Artists’ use of a Skull: Key words This drawing dates from around 1510, although Leonardo (highlighted) had first started looking at human skulls in 1499, when he Jim Dine: Pop artist. Repeatedly uses the The term originally comes from the opening got access to human cadavers from the hospital of Santa skull to find different emotions to lines of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible: Maria Novella in Florence. He used innovative techniques, express. Certain pieces feel foreboding, ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.’ Vanitas are such as injecting molten wax, to locate and draw the cavities while others evoke calmness, sadness, LINK closely related to still lifes around the brain in the bones of the cranium. playfulness and even joy. which are artworks that remind the viewer of He was keen to find the seat the shortness and fragility of life (memento Extended of the human soul. The spine : Picasso was superstitious mori is a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember was thought to be the most Reading about . He kept a skull in his studio you must die’) and include symbols such as likely location. Leonardo and had included human or animal skulls skulls and extinguished candles. However showed that the brain and in his work as early as 1908. vanitas still-lifes also include other symbols spine were connected but such as musical instruments, wine and books never identified where the Human anatomy is the study of to remind us explicitly of the vanity (in the LINK human soul lies. structures of the human body. Damien Hirst: “For the Love of God” is a sculpture sense of worthlessness) of worldly pleasures produced in 2007. It consists of a platinum cast of and goods. an 18th-century human skull encrusted with 8,601 Video Links

GCSE Fine Art - Yr 9 Spring (2a) flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond located in the forehead that is known as 2. Elements of Art: Line & Tone Theme: Skulls the Skull Star Diamond.

Andy Warhol: After he was shot and critically injured in 1968, Warhol became even more LINK Line: Line is a mark made using a 4. Experimenting with Filters obsessed with the theme of death than he drawing tool or brush. A contour line is a had been previously. The skull is repeated continuous line that defines the outline Written Experiment with colour to explore how changes can affect with the impenetrable darkness of the hollow Analysis of a shape. Contour lines can exist the emotion and mood or intensity of an image. There are eye sockets echoed in each image. outside and inside a shape. a range of apps that can be used to edit your photos. Try Tone: In painting, tone refers to the Sasha Bom: Contemporary Russian artist applying a filter and adjusting the brightness, contrast, relative lightness or darkness of a colour. using magazine cuttings to collage brightly exposure and saturation of an image. One colour can have an almost infinite coloured images. Work is recognised number of different tones. Tone can also through Saatchi Fine Art. LINK mean the colour itself. Paul Cezanne: “Pyramid of Skulls” depicts Revision Chiaroscuro is an Italian term which four human skulls stacked in a pyramidal literally means 'light-dark'. In paintings Techniques configuration. Painted in pale tints against chiaroscuro refers to clear tonal contrasts a dark background, Pyramid of Skulls which are often used to suggest the stands out amongst the artist's work volume and modelling of the subjects because in no other painting, does the depicted. viewer get so close to his subject. LINK