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- What the mirror remembers
Original artwork description
This painting is a contemporary reflection on the classical vanitas theme — not as a still life, but as a living portrait in disintegration.
A woman gazes into a mirror, but what stares back is not herself — it's the echo of impermanence, the form of mortality, half-forgotten and half-revealed.
Her image dissolves into expressive gestures, while the skull in the mirror remains intact — precise, unmoved.
She is beauty undone.
She is the moment between awareness and denial.
Painted in oil with a blend of figuration and abstraction, the work explores themes of vanity, identity, and the silent persistence of time.
Materials used:
oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 80 x 100 x 0.1cm (unframed) / 80 x 100cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Surrealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#existential#mirror#symbolism#female portrait#mortality#memento mori#vanity#figurative abstraction#emotional realismFeatured by our Editors:
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Original artwork description
This painting is a contemporary reflection on the classical vanitas theme — not as a still life, but as a living portrait in disintegration.
A woman gazes into a mirror, but what stares back is not herself — it's the echo of impermanence, the form of mortality, half-forgotten and half-revealed.
Her image dissolves into expressive gestures, while the skull in the mirror remains intact — precise, unmoved.
She is beauty undone.
She is the moment between awareness and denial.
Painted in oil with a blend of figuration and abstraction, the work explores themes of vanity, identity, and the silent persistence of time.
Materials used:
oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 80 x 100 x 0.1cm (unframed) / 80 x 100cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Surrealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#existential#mirror#symbolism#female portrait#mortality#memento mori#vanity#figurative abstraction#emotional realismFeatured by our Editors:
Vanessa Poutou
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Vanessa Poutou (b. 1979) is a contemporary artist, whose work focuses on the classical descriptive depiction, painted in a modern manner. Emphasis is given to facial expressions and body movements,... Read more