Tag: painting

• Maiden’s Bloom: The Art of Emilia Olsen

  

  Olsen’s faceless maidens, with their pink, sun-kissed flesh, confront their mortality and heartbreak with the age-old symbol of vanitas – a grinning, bleached skull. Much like Persephone dragging the lush flora down with her descent into Hades, Olsen’s subjects embrace the darkest part of their ego within a state of botanic euphoria.

  Death and the Maiden

  16/07/2018

  Guest Post

  Art, Artist, Creative, Creativity, Death, Death and the Maiden, Doppelgänger, Doppelgänger Studio, Emilia Olsen, Exhibition, History, Love, New York, painting, Persephone, Symbolism

• Beauty in Decomposition: An Interview With Artist AJ Hawkins

  

  Death & the Maiden co-founder, Sarah Chavez, talks to artist AJ Hawkins about her recent series, The Reclamation, which beautifully examines the decomposition of human bodies and the nutrient cycle through art.

  Death and the Maiden

  23/05/2017

  Interview, Sarah Troop

  adipocere, Art, blowflies, body farm, cadaver, Corpse, Death, Death Positive, decomposition, entomology, forensics, mushrooms, mycology, painting, Post-Mortem, putrefaction, sally mann, Science, soil