虚空派通常以静物画果实和人物 表现人生无常。

提醒观众，无论是权力、欢愉、还是那些美好的事物，最终都会归于尘土。

道义信息

虚空派是静 物画的种特殊形式画家从多个层面构思，所表现的不仅仅是精美的艺术品。相反，画中的每样事物都具有象征涵义。虚空派画作向观众展示:人人都不能逃脱死亡，人的野心是多么的愚套。正如上文所说，虚空派的作品是道义的说教，警告人们世间万物既无意义，也非人们所想的那么重要。传统虚空派的静物画主要借由具体事物来象征财富知识、自然事物或地上现世的事情等，进而得以与借助实物来具体表现耶稣复活以及盼望永生的主题并列。

难逃一死

还有一些其他的元素也被虚空派运用到画作之中，如腐烂的水果，象征老化:泡沫象征突然死亡:熄灭的蜡烛及钟表，则提醒我们生命的短暂。然而，虚空派在表现死亡时，用得最多的象征物便是髑髅。莎士比亚著名戏剧《哈姆雷特》中的男主人公丹麦王子哈姆雷特手拿仆人尤里克的人头，哀叹世间万物生命皆短暂，任何人都难逃死亡的结局。死亡是不可避免的，谈论生存也是毫无意义的。

虚空派的象征手法

就艺术风格而言，虚空派所表现的静物绝非外表呈现的那样，而是具有深刻的寓意。一杯葡萄酒，或许从直观来看，这只是一个容纳芳香诱人的葡萄汁的杯子，但是葡萄酒也可以象征耶稣基督的鲜血(特别是摆在一个面包旁的杯葡萄酒);也可能指的是人类的味觉:甚至象征纵情声色放纵堕落。虚空派作品中所表现的事物，主要分为以下三类:第，凡人的生活装备，如书籍、工具、钱包、契约等;第二，反映生命无常的事物如髑髅、沙漏等第三,表现救赎或永生等主题的事物，如一束麦穗、月桂花环或象牙。此外，贝壳与紫色的衣服象征财富: -堆杂乱的盘子则暗示人的愚蠢，说明人类只关心自己的口腹之欲，却不愿意拯救自己的灵魂。镜子用来表现智慧，学识，一面:落满灰尘的镜子，象征人类被无知所蒙蔽。

Voidualists

The void school usually expresses the impermanence of life by drawing fruits and characters in still life.

Remind the audience that power, pleasure, and good things will eventually come to dust.

Moral Information

The Void School is a special form of still life painting, which is conceived by artists from many levels, and it is not only exquisite works of art. On the contrary, everything in the painting has a symbolic meaning. Void paintings show the audience how foolish people's ambitions are, that no one can escape death. As mentioned above, the works of the Void School are moral sermons, warning people that everything in the world is neither meaningful nor as important as people think. Traditional still life paintings of the void school mainly symbolize wealth, knowledge, natural things or earthly things by means of specific things, and then can be juxtaposed with the theme of expressing the resurrection of Jesus and the hope of eternal life by means of physical objects.

It's hard to escape death.

Some other elements are also used by the vanity in the paintings, such as rotten fruits, symbolizing aging: Foam symbolizes sudden death: extinguished candles and clocks remind us of the short life. However, skull is the most frequently used symbol of the void in the expression of death. The hero of Shakespeare's famous play Hamlet, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, holds the head of his servant Ulik and laments the short life of all things in the world and the death of anyone. Death is inevitable and there is no point in talking about survival.

Symbolism of the Void School

As far as artistic style is concerned, the still life represented by the Void School is by no means the appearance of the emperor, but has profound implications. A glass of wine, perhaps intuitively speaking, is only a cup of grape juice that contains aromatic and attractive aromas, but wine can also symbolize the blood of Jesus Christ (especially a glass of wine placed beside a bread); it may also refer to human taste: even to indulgence and decadence. The things represented in the works of the Void School are mainly divided into three categories: firstly, the life equipment of ordinary people, such as books, tools, wallets, contracts, etc; secondly, the things reflecting the impermanence of life, such as skulls, hourglass and so on; thirdly, the things reflecting the theme of salvation or immortality, such as a bunch of wheat ears, laurel wreath or ivory. In addition, shells and purple clothes symbolize wealth: cluttered plates imply human stupidity, suggesting that humans care only about their appetite, but are unwilling to save their souls. Mirror is used to express wisdom, knowledge, one side: a mirror covered with dust, symbolizing that human beings are blinded by ignorance.

Example

▲日晷(静物法国画派)Sundial -still life French painting school

包括日晷在内的一些计时装置多用来象征时间飞逝，常常出现在如‘最后时光“等以时间为主题的画作中。

Some timing devices, including sundials, are often used to symbolize the passage of time and often appear in time-themed paintings such as' last time'.

▲手拿骷髅的青年    A young man with a skeleton in his hand

有人认为，荷兰画家弟朗斯哈尔斯这幅作品中的年轻人便是莎翁笔下的哈姆雷特，骷髅则是一种警告。尽管是一个青年掌着骷髅，但是也会让观众联想到死亡。

Some people think that the young man in the work of the Dutch painter Lance Hals is Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the skeleton is a warning. Although a young man holds a skeleton, it also reminds the audience of death.

▲三只猴子Three monkeys.

猴子象征贪婪、纵欲。因此在弗朗兹斯奈德的作品中，猴子直奔食物而去，警告人类不要让动物本能所控制。

Monkeys symbolize greed and indulgence. So in Franz Snyder's work, monkeys go straight to food, warning humans not to becontrolled by animal instinct.