

Faile Canadian / American, b. 1975 / b. 1976
Frame: h 79 x w 58 cm (31 1/4 x 22 3/4 in.)
Further images
Florid motifs and gothic colour palette.
‘In the midst of life we are in death’.
Vanity’s paintings
A vanitas is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, often contrasting symbols of wealth and symbols of ephemerality and death. Best-known are vanitas still lifes, a common genre in Low Countries of the 16th and 17th centuries