MEMENTO MORI
Et In Arcadia Ego / Memento Mori. A 1637-1638 painting by Nicolas Poussin. The translation of the phrase is "even in Arcadia, there am I...". The usual interpretation is that "I" refers to Death, and Arcadia means an utopian land. It would thus be a memento mori. "The discovery of art has been the creative response of humankind to the shocking fact of mortality..." "At an early stage of his intellectual development man deems himself naturally immortal... [an] illusion, so flattering to human wishes and hopes... but in time the sad truth of human mortality was borne in upon our primitive philosopher with a force of demonstration no prejudice could resist and no sophistry dissemble…” Thus, remember that you will die...
Et in Arcadia, Ego - Nicolas Poussin:
The Invisibles #5 - Grant Morrison:
The Golden Bough - Sir James Frazier;
“Picasso und die christliche ikonographie” - Becht-Jordens & Wehmeier
Ink on bleedproof, 2020.
Print - Archival 280gsm cotton rag
Et In Arcadia Ego / Memento Mori. A 1637-1638 painting by Nicolas Poussin. The translation of the phrase is "even in Arcadia, there am I...". The usual interpretation is that "I" refers to Death, and Arcadia means an utopian land. It would thus be a memento mori. "The discovery of art has been the creative response of humankind to the shocking fact of mortality..." "At an early stage of his intellectual development man deems himself naturally immortal... [an] illusion, so flattering to human wishes and hopes... but in time the sad truth of human mortality was borne in upon our primitive philosopher with a force of demonstration no prejudice could resist and no sophistry dissemble…” Thus, remember that you will die...
Et in Arcadia, Ego - Nicolas Poussin:
The Invisibles #5 - Grant Morrison:
The Golden Bough - Sir James Frazier;
“Picasso und die christliche ikonographie” - Becht-Jordens & Wehmeier
Ink on bleedproof, 2020.
Print - Archival 280gsm cotton rag
Et In Arcadia Ego / Memento Mori. A 1637-1638 painting by Nicolas Poussin. The translation of the phrase is "even in Arcadia, there am I...". The usual interpretation is that "I" refers to Death, and Arcadia means an utopian land. It would thus be a memento mori. "The discovery of art has been the creative response of humankind to the shocking fact of mortality..." "At an early stage of his intellectual development man deems himself naturally immortal... [an] illusion, so flattering to human wishes and hopes... but in time the sad truth of human mortality was borne in upon our primitive philosopher with a force of demonstration no prejudice could resist and no sophistry dissemble…” Thus, remember that you will die...
Et in Arcadia, Ego - Nicolas Poussin:
The Invisibles #5 - Grant Morrison:
The Golden Bough - Sir James Frazier;
“Picasso und die christliche ikonographie” - Becht-Jordens & Wehmeier
Ink on bleedproof, 2020.
Print - Archival 280gsm cotton rag