Everyone in the world
Item
Artwork Title
Everyone in the world
Artist
Art Form
Print
Art Medium
Aquatint
Etching
Description
Aquatint and dry point etching with hand-colouring
Artwork Measurement (cm)
42 x 59
Date
2013
Label Information
Artists have long focused on the image of the human skull, observing it as a reminder of mortality. Spit bite aquatint and dry point etching with hand-colouring, printed on 300gsm Hannemuhle paper and as a prompt to live well. ‘I once was what you are and what I am you also will be’, is an approximate translation of the words painted as if carved into the tomb of the skeleton pictured in the Holy Trinity fresco by Masaccio, the remarkable Florentine 15th century painter. Much later, Andy Warhol’s studio assistant Ronnie Cutrone famously remarked that to paint a skull is ‘like doing the portrait of everybody in the world’. The title I chose for this print comes directly from
there. Joni Brenner
there. Joni Brenner
Acquisition Type
Purchased
Building
Date Acquired
2015
Date Accessioned
2015
Rights Holder
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