This painting “Skull and Candle”is by Gerard Richter, a German painter born in 1932. It’s a reflection on life and death.  The lit candle symbolises life, and the life-less human skull symbolises death.  Paradoxically, without the light of the candle or another light source, we would not be able to see the skull, and without the brain residing in our skull, we wouldn’t be aware of the light. The two need each other: candle & skull, life & death.  

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