Is it normal to hate artwork based on skulls?

who cares what the skull means , the issue is do you get sick and tired of skull art and i do. its boring as fuck. it just say one thing , it screams look at me . im so special , look im part of a really cool death cult or special whatever the fuck . guess what assholes , you are not special. at best you are special to the other skull assholes and no one else. I Feel pretty good now. got that off my chest.

These skulls representatiom called "memento mori" which in Latin literally means "remember that you have to die" or "remember that you are a mortal". Medieval Latin Christians artists often reflected on mortality and represented it in their works.

The human skull is one of the most often used memento mori figure,, though there are a multitudes ofthat can be place with the same intent. For example, an hourglass, a wilted flower, a tomb, a broken mirror and so on. Often, many of those symbols are represented together as a stil life and you usually see them towards the bottom side of a painting.

Most of the times, memento mori have nothing at all or very little in common with the rest of the painting. At the time, artists were often hired by nobles and people from the bourgeoisie and were asked to have made a paining that celebrates their accomplishments.This practice, very vain in itself for many reasons is often balanced by the use of a memento mo to remind the vanity of earthy life and the transient nature of all earthy goods.

The idea is very much the same as the Carpe Diem (seize the day) It's a reminder to live fully and to do so in the present, since you can't change yesterday and don't know what tomorrow holds for you.

Memento mori have taken diverse forms since then, but are stil today often included in pictural representation.

So, as for your question about representation of human skulls, unless the incorporation within the work is seamless,I feel that in contemporary art or in pop culture, they are used much too frequently and often fails to convey their real raison d'être.

Different strokes for different folks. We all got our own tastes I don't care for skull art either.

For me personally, I just get tired similar to how Nickvey feels. The artist would have to be using it really really really tastefully or it just comes off cheesy, "haha I'm scary I like DEATH and stuff grr don't mess with my hard ass" kind of stuff. Way too overused by emo kids in high school and middle-aged potbellied men whose midlife crisis demands they buy a motorcycle.

i love drawing skulls, and etc i just love skulls, they dont resemble halloween, they are just cool :^)

Yes, I do get this. While skulls can represent other things... to me all it represents is death, and that's not what I want to think about whenever I'm turning a corner. I remember \in school when I was about 12-13 we had an entire 6 months devoted just to sketching skulls, and at the time I had this phobia of bones XD. I guess it's one of the reasons i'm so against skull art =)

skulls look fugly imo, im more of an eye guy