For people to be haters in defense of wearing skulls proves my point. Not a positive vibe. Art History talks eloquently about the meaning of skull symbolism dating back to the Middle Ages. The paintings of skulls represent the notion of VANITAS - the meaningless of Life, the material realm and the inevitability of death.
"Common vanitas symbols include skulls, which are a reminder of the certainty of death; rotten fruit, which symbolizes decay like ageing; bubbles, which symbolize the brevity of life and suddenness of death; smoke, watches, and hourglasses, which symbolize the brevity of life; and musical instruments, which symbolize brevity and the ephemeral nature of life. Fruit, flowers and butterflies can be interpreted in the same way, and a peeled lemon, as well as accompanying seafood was, like life, attractive to look at, but bitter to taste.
Vanitas themes were common in medieval funerary art, with most surviving examples in sculpture. By the 15th century these could be extremely morbid and explicit, reflecting an increased obsession with death and decay also seen in the Ars moriendi, Danse Macabre and the overlapping motif of the Memento mori. Paintings executed in the vanitas style are meant as a reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. They also provided a moral justification for many paintings of attractive objects." --wikipedia- Vanitas
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| Child in a burke by DLazar |
As one Anonymous commenter wrote:
To believe that what you dress a child in determins (sic) their actions is crazy.
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