During the Baroque period, a soap bubble was often depicted (genre “vanitas”) in paintings, as an allegory of the inevitability of death and the futility of being. Along with bubbles, the symbols of the meaning of life were also a smoking pipe, a watch, and coins. And you can see that with the development of art (and this is one of the most reliable “reflectors” of the values of the era), symbolic figures on canvases also changed (crosses, jewelry, now abstractions, but they are immaterial). Please forgive me if I'm not quite up to speed with my art..
They symbolize time. And this includes everything else, they show that time passes – life passes. They show that the hours are not infinite – life is limited in time. They show that later, everything starts anew – after you, someone else will live, a new one.
They show that something is not yet time, and vice versa, it is time to commit. They suggest that you need to hurry to live and stretch out the pleasure of life.
During the Baroque period, a soap bubble was often depicted (genre “vanitas”) in paintings, as an allegory of the inevitability of death and the futility of being. Along with bubbles, the symbols of the meaning of life were also a smoking pipe, a watch, and coins. And you can see that with the development of art (and this is one of the most reliable “reflectors” of the values of the era), symbolic figures on canvases also changed (crosses, jewelry, now abstractions, but they are immaterial). Please forgive me if I'm not quite up to speed with my art..
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They symbolize time. And this includes everything else, they show that time passes – life passes. They show that the hours are not infinite – life is limited in time. They show that later, everything starts anew – after you, someone else will live, a new one.
They show that something is not yet time, and vice versa, it is time to commit. They suggest that you need to hurry to live and stretch out the pleasure of life.
In a word – Hours.