vanitas

• La France is "a holy union of war movie and love story, consecrated in the same chapel of pop that houses tearful penitent Profit motive and the whispering wind is" an hour-long pilgrimage to the graves, minor monuments, and commemorative plaques erected to honor America's freethinkers and radicals, "writes Gianvito's film is part eulogy and part rallying cry for America's radical left, then Dust (Staub) is a vanitas for late capitalism." —  GreenCine Daily
• Vanitas is visible in "Marilyn", an image of Marilyn Monroe and traditional vanitas symbols. —  Arizona Daily Wildcat
• The tone of the painting matches the idea of vanitas. —  Arizona Daily Wildcat
• But I guess Luann's the type that would find a skull in a vanitas horrifying, so maybe it's just some poorly drawn wilted roses or something. —  The Comics Curmudgeon
• But it's set about with formal emblems of death from a vanitas scene - skull and bones, bubbles bubbling in a foreground pool, a smoking lamp dangling from a branch. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

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