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There are many things that you can see from death paintings. They can be realistic or abstract artworks that show various symbols and signs of death. These signs and symbols differ for many artists depending on the countries or territories they came from.
Death Paintings and Morbid Themes
Some postulate on the impermanence of life. Some predicts the deaths of other people; some simply show grief, and others, like the Egyptian paintings, show the story of how and when a certain person died.
Death signs and symbols differ in many territories. In Western culture, black is the symbol of death, in many Eastern territories and culture, white is the symbol of death.
The Easterners also use white for their mourning and funeral rites.
The elements that can also be seen in paintings of death are skulls, skeletons, scythes, ravens and crows, vultures, angels, vampires, cypress trees, etc. In storybooks, these elements are graphically illustrated to symbolize death. In films (like The Crow or The Masque of Red Death), some elements can be literally or figuratively used to predict death.
Paintings of death usually contain violent splashes of red and black patterns. Many people also rant on the suicidal tendencies of gothic artists and painters with their gloomy and depressing death painting artworks. Even musicians like Marilyn Manson makes watercolor paintings of death that can simply chill your blood.
One of the most famous morbid painters in history is Edvard Munch. Most of his paintings are disturbing artworks about life, love, and death. He even depicted his own sister's death in his painting "Death in the Sickroom."
Paintings of death can be great for a certain collection. You can start your own collection by searching and buying serious and mysterious death paintings from art galleries or museums, and from different websites.
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