Geneviève Groulx

Vanitas

Other
2020
Oils on canvas.
19 x 13.5 inches
Still-life with a memento mori theme.

“This piece is an observational painting of a collection of items from a cabinet of curiosities. Among the items depicted are a sea shell, a dead/dried blue rose, a skull, an ancient book, an hourglass, and a portrait of Ernest Rutherford, father of nuclear physics. With this dull colour palette and all these old, dead items in presentation, this painting serves as a vanitas, a reminder of the inevitability of change, death, and decay in life.”

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Vanitas
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Geneviève Groulx aka. Ève

“I work at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences--of biology and art, of knowledge and imagination, of fact and fiction. A fundamental part of my artistic process consists in observing...” [More]