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Philippe Cognée — Yellow Skulls
Philippe Cognée

Yellow Skulls

2009

A haunting arrangement of yellow skulls emerges from a richly textured surface, their forms simultaneously vivid and dissolving into an almost dreamlike blur. Cognée's signature encaustic-influenced technique — achieved by applying heat to oil paint — gives the skulls a luminous, wax-like quality that softens the boundaries between life and death. The intense yellow palette transforms a traditionally macabre subject into something strangely radiant and unsettling.

Medium
oil on canvas laid on panel

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Philippe Cognée, Yellow Skulls, 2009

A haunting arrangement of yellow skulls emerges from a richly textured surface, their forms simultaneously vivid and dissolving into an almost dreamlike blur. Cognée's signature encaustic-influenced technique — achieved by applying heat to oil paint — gives the skulls a luminous, wax-like quality that softens the boundaries between life and death. The intense yellow palette transforms a traditionally macabre subject into something strangely radiant and unsettling.

Medium
oil on canvas laid on panel
Year
2009
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Dark Mood, Skulls, Vanitas, Yellow Palette, Male Artist, Memento Mori, French Artist, Contemporary Artist, Encaustic Style, Figurative Art, Late 20th Century, Oil on Canvas

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