Not much of a skull lover myself - everywhere I turn it's another skull....
but, Here's perhaps one of the earlier samples of skull art that I wasn't aware existed until I happened to be doing an internet search and some reading on Vincent Van Gogh....
Yep...ol' Vinny mighta been a biker if he'd lived in this time.
This painting is entitled 'Skull with burning cigarette' and was executed in the winter of 1886/87.
Interestingly enough, Van Gogh only sold one painting while he was alive - although he had created over 900 paintings and 1,000 drawings in his life.
His last painting Wheat Fields, finished a few days before his death and privately owned is going on the auction block. Van Gogh, suffering from mental illness and severe melencholy went out into a field...shot himself in the chest and staggered back into town - thinking it wasn't what turned out to be a fatal gunshot...he died two days later...
Here is his contribution to "skull art."
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Looks like Van Gogh was a Grateful Dead fan. Imagine if tie-dye shirts were around during his time.
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Posted by Bruce Williams (Member # 691) on :
This is a Van Gogh? I'm surprised the anti-smoking lobbies haven't discovered this image and made some hay out of it. Send 'em a copy. Or if this is your own hoax, sell it to 'em.
Posted by W. R. Pickett (Member # 3842) on :
...In the '30s, when he was a young soldier (and SKULL and BONES member) stationed in New Mexico, Georges grandfather PRESCOT BUSH reportedly robbed the grave of famed Indian cheif GERANIMO and brought his skull to the S & B crypt at YALE.
Posted by W. R. Pickett (Member # 3842) on :
