As my profect progressed I started to look at the themes and issues relating to how people try to cover up ar distract themselves away from big or unpleasant issues and in this particular death.
Therefore I started to look at the the baroque and vanitas paintings - theses were all about opulence and indulgence but with the underlying thme of death and mortality. I then looked at art and images from a culture that freely accepted and outwardly dealt with the concept of their own mortality therefore I looked at the Mexican 'Day of the dead festival'. In the mexican culture they chose to acknowledge thier mortality and celebrate the lives of the deceased. They decorate replicas of skulls and make sugar candy skulls which therefore brings out the issue of death out into the open the decoration serves to put emphasis on the topic encouraging a different take on it than other western cultures.
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