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Skeleton Paintings
Beautiful Bodies in Art
Original skeleton paintings from the Beautiful Bodies series. Click images to learn about each painting and view art prints.
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About
Beautiful Bodies Gallery
Beautiful Bodies are acrylic canvas paintings of skeletons with hearts offering the meditation of "Be In Your Body and See with Your Heart".
In this series, Campion presents skeletons that symbolize our essential connection to nature and our ancestors, while the heart serves as a reminder of our capacity for nurturing relationships. In her color palette, black references grounded wisdom, white symbolizes interconnection, and red radiates passion.
The works are part of the artistic tradition of "memento mori," or macabre celebrations of life and death. Examples of this iconography can be found from the earliest neolithic creations through to our modern art history.
In her compositions, Campion primarily uses layers of black, thin washes of color, a variety of dots and lines combined with minimal gestures of realism.
