Примеры употребления для vanitas
1. As for RK–S himself, no truth in the rumour that he plans to announce the formation of Vanitas, a party backing low taxes and high tans.
2. In the traditional Vanitas the subjects are rich and valuable objects from the life of the world – combined with another object, the skull, or death‘s head, which shows their impermanence for what it is.
3. There is, however, no hint in it of a later tendency in his work toward "vanitas" – the notion that art should remind us that life is transient, that "all is vanity." Throughout his career, there is an evident tug–of–war between images of opulent good living (he painted for rich clients‘ houses) and a will to be restrained.
4. The curators remark on the trompe–l‘oeil and the paradoxes – the work is heavy, there is no content to this container, "a rubbish bag is the perfect modern vanitas object". And yet this work, too, at some primary level, is a contemplation of the work of eye and brain, first in really seeing something, in making vision – and then in reforming the vision in new and other material.