Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow,
Shakespeare, The tragedy of Macbeth, Scene V
Only meaningful paintings can depict the death of painting
For a statistician, life and death are synonyms, check it by looking for "life insurance" on the internet. Life is a metaphor for death.
I think that museums today are conserving not only art objects, but the purpose of the art. If your project is a copy of Marcel Duchamp, there is a frog in your art project because avant-garde is to run away from sensible advice.