vanitas vanitatum. Salvador Dalí's Illustrations for The Bible (1963). Ecumenical Council

 

The word vanitas is Latin and means “futility” or “meaninglessness” and derives from the Vulgate translation of Ecclesiastes 1:2, vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas (Vulgate). There Solomon wrote, “vanity of vanities; all is vanity” ...

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1達味之子耶路撒冷的君王「訓道者」的語錄：

2虛而又虛，訓道者說：虛而又虛，萬事皆虛。

Definition of vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas

: vanity of vanities, all (is) vanity : earthly life is ultimately empty

Salvador Dalí's Illustrations for The Bible (1963) | Open Culture

Some might have taken offense when Salvador Dalí began illustrating the Bible in 1963. The notorious Surrealist “went to jail for his artworks as a young man,” writes Jackson Arn writes at Artsy, but he “lived long enough to lend his legendary panache to Hollywood movies and Alka-Seltzer commercials.” Along the way, he gained a reputation for having a rather vicious character. George Orwell, reviewing Dalí’s autobiography, described him as “disgusting” for his fanatical harassment and abuse of other people. But, Orwell went on, “Dalí is a draughtsman of very exceptional gifts. He is also, to judge by the minuteness and the sureness of his drawings, a very hard worker…. He has fifty times more talent than most of the people who would denounce his morals and jeer at his paintings.”...


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Salvador Dalí. Vanitas Vanitatum. 1964

Salvador Dalí 在1960年畫兩幅Ecumenical Council 和一幅未完成的 Cathedral.

Ecumenical Council ：大公會議：由教宗召開的全球主教會議，討論有關教會的重要問題。現已召開廿一屆；最近一次為梵蒂岡第二屆大公會議，於 1962-1965 年在羅馬梵蒂岡召開。