Ansley Adams is the creator of this oil painting called Memento Mori which is currently located at The Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery of USC Upstate. Ansley Adams created this painting circa two-thousand and fifteenth. The medium of the work is oil, and the dimension of t this painting is fifteen and a half by sixteen. The term Memento Moris is a Latin phrase that means to remember you must die. Ansley painting depicts a skull standing on top of a stand and a long neck bottle that is positioned the same length as the skull. Ansley uses [primary warm colors like orange for the bottle and yellow mix with white for the skull. The objects in both the middle and foreground of this picture are the skull and the bottle. The shadows for both the skull and the bottle are on the different colors wall in the background.…show more content… A painting of a glass bottle can stand for power, wealth, or elegance while a painting of a skull can stand for toughness, caution, history, or death. I think that the skull and the bottle both has to do with death and that the man who died was trying to find warmth and happiness through the bottle , but he eventually died either from overdrinking or something else. I thing this for a number of reasons. One of the reason is because the bottle is a warm color orange which symbolize warmth and happiness and the skull usually symbolize death and sorrow. Also, I think this because the only dark colors that are used in this picture are the shadow of both the skull and the bottle and the hollow holes in the skull. Ansleu uses a variety of art elements and principals of design to create the Memento Mori