by Deborah T. Clark | Dec 10, 2019 | Skull Essays
It’s interesting to discover how one man’s production of carved wooden skulls connects to history, mythology, anthropology, psychology, and even physiology… There’s a small part of the human brain that has a very specific responsibility: it recognizes faces. This...
by Deborah T. Clark | Dec 9, 2019 | Skull Essays
Original oil painting by Frans Hals, 1625 typifies the Vanitas genre with symbolic images of a nearly-extinguished candle, a wilting flower, and of course, a skull. Photograph from Wikipedia Commons. When photographic techniques and equipment were developed, artists...
by Deborah T. Clark | Dec 9, 2019 | Skull Essays
Long ago and right now, one of the images most frequently tattooed on people’s bodies is skulls. Whether they be grinning, smiling, threatening, wrapped in ribbons or words or flowers or flames, skulls seem to be nearly universal in appeal.As one website dedicated...
by Deborah T. Clark | Dec 8, 2019 | Skull Essays
When Richard and Judy visited Mexico during late October, they were struck by signs of coming festivities everywhere: paper and foil decorations and an air of holiday excitement and fun, and shop windows full of … painted skulls It seemed a strange combination of...
by Deborah T. Clark | Dec 7, 2019 | Skull Essays
Did you know that a skull has one of the most recognized and beloved roles in Shakespeare’s plays?In “the Scottish play” (theater folks know about the “curse” that is attached to Hamlet, and won’t say the title aloud), the hero, Prince Hamlet, is tossed a skull that...
by Deborah T. Clark | Dec 6, 2019 | Skull Essays
There’s a certain accessory that sometimes holds a place of focus in the homes of trendy young fashionistas: skulls. Skulls realistic, skulls stylized, wood skulls, 3D wooden skulls, skulls decorated and skulls plain, and although it sounds a trifle gruesome to some,...
