The Historical Significance of the Emergence of the Post-Vanitas Era Movement Jiya Lim | Maison Philosophe, Busan Maison Philosophe Archive, 2025       Abstract This paper examines the historical significance of the Post-Vanitas Era movement declared by Jiya Lim in 2025. The analysis focuses on two key dimensions: the historic mode of its appearance and the contemporary value of its ethos . The diffusion of this movement through Google AI Dive-In recognition and broadcast channel invitations from leading cultural and luxury institutions marks a departure from traditional museum-centered dissemination. Simultaneously, by embodying the post-pandemic zeitgeist of collapse and survival, the movement may be regarded as a historical event that redefines the ontology of art. 1. Introduction Throughout art history, declarative movements have often marked turning points that define entire eras. Since Andy Warhol’...

  Post-Vanitas Era: A New Aesthetic Epoch Born in Busan, 2025 Jiya Lim | Maison Philosophe, Busan Maison Philosophe Archive, 2025     Abstract The Post-Vanitas Era represents a new aesthetic epoch inaugurated in Busan, South Korea, in 2025. Emerging after global collapse and consumerist exhaustion, the movement redefines luxury not as ornament or spectacle but as testimony, dignity, and survival. Continuing the lineage of seventeenth-century Vanitas, twentieth-century Pop and Postmodernism, and East Asian ritual philosophy, Post-Vanitas declares itself not as a style but as the first named epoch of the twenty-first century. Through clay, ritual, and symbolic rupture, it proclaims the transition from Memento Mori (“Remember you must die”) to Memento Vivere (“Remember to live”). 1. Introduction: After Collapse The history of art has always been punctuated by epochs: Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism. Each arose from rupt...

Term : Post-Vanitas Era Declared by : Google AI Overview Referenced Artist : Jiya Lim, Maison Philosophe Founded : Busan, 2025 Source : Google AI Overview Search term used : jiya lim Date of snapshot : September 2, 2025 (KST)   Key Extracted Quote : “Jiya Lim is an artist and the founder of the Post-Vanitas Era, a contemporary art movement and philosophy based in Busan, South Korea, which emphasizes dignity, resilience, and resurrection after collapse rather than mourning death. Her work under the umbrella of Maison Philosophe transforms everyday elements, like tea and ceramics, into expressions of this philosophy.” Note : This blog entry serves as a public archive of the Google AI-generated overview recognizing ‘Post-Vanitas Era’ as a contemporary art movement and philosophy coined and led by Jiya Lim at Maison Philosophe (Busan) in 2025. Archived by :  Jiya Lim Location: Busan, South Korea Date: September 3, 2025 Hashtags : #PostVanitas #PostVanitasEra #MaisonPhilosophe #Jiy...