Skull Paintings

The candles and flowers help those who have passed, find their way back to their loved ones. The skull and cross represents the integration of christian and pre-Columbian cultural tr...

The final realization of his ideas emerged in his skull paintings, begun in the 1960s. A new aesthetic of beauty arose though the surface drama of skulls in his collage work used to ...

Within it, you will find horns, fur, claws, an animal skull, hair, feathers, wooden objects, hair, etc.

How many images have we looked at and we remember or have an emotional response to it. The skull represents a person who took the picture, created the image, or may even be in the p...

Her penitent gaze is directed upwards, her hands clasped, resting on a skull. Behind her is a lidded vase as an ointment jar, an attribute of the saint who had anointed Jesus' feet, ...

In 2007 Hirst created what is arguably his most provocative work: For the Love of God, a life-sized platinum cast of a human skull, covered entirely by 8,601 VVS to flawless pavé set...

The final realization of his ideas emerged in his skull paintings, begun in the 1960s. A new aesthetic of beauty arose though the surface drama of skulls in his collage work used to ...

Animal Rights features a stylised ram skull as representation of the animal kingdom and it's contained within a boxing ring as metaphor of the fight for animal rights.

They also symbolize the fragility of the material plane, where our keepsakes are usually found. Yektai also drops a skull into the mix, reminding us of the fleeting nature of any lif...

This painting titled "Painted for Life" features his iconic Robot Tattooed with a "MOM" a snake a heart and a skull. The painting measures 36x24" and is signed and titled on the ve...

Abstract oil on wood in a black modern frame. 1974 Exhibited Central Gallery ...

In the painting the gold coins and silver cup represents treasure that was traded for goods and services. The skull with bandana represents a ship’s crew member, the blue tone and bo...

This surrealist still life has a flowers, a skull, a book and a seashell. Guy Robinson is inspired by the work of Paul Klee, Albrecht Durer and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

This surrealist still life has an elephant, turtle shell, sea shell, skull, blue vase and flowers. Guy Robinson is inspired by the work of Paul Klee, Albrecht Durer and Giuseppe Arc...

This surrealist still life a pear, skull, glove, vase, bird, plants, a book, and patterned rug fragment.

The painting portrays Van Gogh's head as a striking blue skull, one eye transformed into a cartoon-style eyeball, the other a mouth, illustrating a whimsical yet profound melding of ...

The inclusion of the red skull adds a striking and enigmatic dimension to the composition.

Mike Ellis: “My childhood in Norfolk, watching and rescuing birds and animals, collecting bones and digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting na...

Plein air painting from Black Forest, Germany; at the old cemetery of Freiburg City. The skull found at the old cemetery telling a myth about treason and murder; rooted in history b...

Artist CommentsI have a succulent in a ceramic sugar skull pot in my kitchen and painted it from life.

The artist recorded the pilgrims lacerating their own skulls, backs and shoulders, the blood streaming down their faces until they eventually drop from exhaustion.

Artwork depicts a still life composition consisting of skull on a chair, scuplture on a drawer, bowl with animal food and paintings one of which is a painting of a baby.

The 3D piece features a skull, a cowboy riding a horse, a fly and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle character below text written across the top of the piece, "ENTERTAIN," across a beauti...

Standing almost 1.30 m tall, we recognize them by their long legs and the portion of bare red skin on their skulls. These birds are present in Northern Europe in summer, before migra...

This painting depicts a dark-themed evening scene featuring a man in a baby blue ruffled cloak holding a skull. The figure is accompanied by several visual elements such as a bull's ...

His Americanizing the Alien, from the January 1920 issue of New Solidarity has Uncle Sam transferring a new brain to a man with the top of his skull hinged back. Becker lived for a ...

David Cheifetz's "Ego is an oil painting featuring a dark skull contrasted with a light background. About the artist: David is an internationally acclaimed and collected artist wh...

Executed with bright colors and gestural brush work, as well as a skull for a head, the painting references one of Gee’s influences, Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The man is standing holding a trepanation instrument and is accompanied by a skull. At the time of its painting trepanation was a novel practice that was on the cutting edge of medic...

Most ancient cultures from the Assyrians via the ancient Greeks and Vikings have a goat appear in their legends. Berlin's goat skulls borrow from these traditions and provide a twist...

Most ancient cultures from the Assyrians via the ancient Greeks and Vikings have a goat appear in their legends. Berlin’s goat skulls borrow from these traditions and provide a twist...

Among the illustration images are a panoply of pop culture references from the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern hemispheres -- birds and other animals, landscapes, UFOs, food ...

Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Quoting Sagan" is an oil painting that depicts a human skull situated with books and letter blocks, and other various objects in a dark interior.

Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Vanitas with Marine Corps Coin" is an oil painting that depicts a human skull situated with an orange, a Marine Corps coin, and other various objects in a...

These might include items such as a skull, a candle, a clock, or a decaying flower, though the specific objects in Jansens' version may vary.

Gregory Block's (US based) "Porcupine" is an oil painting that depicts a Porcupine skull and wooden shelf floating among clouds and a bright blue sky.

In the 1960s he produced paintings in protest against the Vietnam War, some of which incorporated the human skulls he had collected from Mexican graveyards. As art historian Donald K...

Some of the still life works from this period also feature the vanitas element of a human skull. Notwithstanding technical, stylistic, and compositional changes in his still life pai...

Words that describe this painting: Virgen de Guadalupe, Christmas, Navidad, Noel, saints, altar, shop, window, chili peppers, lights, day of the dead, reflection, glass globes, night...

The lower part of the figure subtly transforms into a skull, introducing themes of life and mortality.

LE CRÂNE 2020 Paris, France A faint gesture of a skull, ‘le crane,’ lives on a pale pink background, and interacts with other abstract detailing, creating movement and tension.

A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer t...

The floating debris creates a contemporary vanitas motif: instead of skulls and extinguished candles, the symbols of decay are plastic and petroleum byproducts—markers of environment...

Ulrich Gleiter's (EUR based) "Souvenirs from New Mexico and Georgian Icons" is an oil painting that depicts a still-life of human skulls on a wooden table. Bio/Artist Statement: G...

Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009, and Ceramic Sculptures in 2011.

Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009, and Ceramic Sculptures in 2011.

Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009, and Ceramic Sculptures in 2011.

Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009, and Ceramic Sculptures in 2011.

Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009, and Ceramic Sculptures in 2011.

Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009, and Ceramic Sculptures in 2011.

Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009, and Ceramic Sculptures in 2011.

Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009, and Ceramic Sculptures in 2011.

One day, a couple of kids brought in a shrunken skull they had made and asked Max if he could reproduce it.

One day, a couple of kids brought in a shrunken skull they had made and asked Max if he could reproduce it.

Translated title: "Red skull". Acrylic on canvas.