Personification of art sat there waiting for Mr. Death to visit

(going to the timewaster page).

And the noble, seminal switch is a stuttering candle.

Clive Gamble, Science 6 February 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5915, pp. 709 - 711

Art death crossing Mara river showing the high medieval obsession with beauty and death

Is this the way the art world ends? Why ideas that spawn other artworks are called seminal if they are made from nothing ?

"Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas"

An advantage of bad art: your relatives gain nothing by your death.

Theodor Adorno, "Good art is reduced to memento mori in museums".

The skeletal figure of Death is important in the medieval danse macabre. Because a good artist is a dead artist, haunted art galleries are places where everyone there should be dead.

"De mortuis, aut bene aut nihil"