The phrase "a skull for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing a skull as a representation or symbol for something, or in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "In the art exhibit, there was a striking piece titled 'A Skull for the Forgotten,' which highlighted themes of mortality and memory."
Alternatives: "a skull representing" or "a skull symbolizing".
Richter's painting of a skull, for instance, is stretched so as to recall the anamorphic illusion of Holbein's "Ambassadors".
The boss is Killface, who has a skull for a head, cloven hoofs for feet and a way with a phrase.
The folds of the chemise in Domenico Fetti's painting of Melancholy clutching a skull, for example, are echoed in the stone ruffles of a Baroque funerary monument displayed next to it.
There's a still more thought-provoking approach in the German book Duck, Death and the Tulip, in which Duck becomes aware, one day, that someone with a skull for a head, and a rather natty tartan coat, is following her everywhere.
'Trojan Horse', by Carrie Reichardt, had a skull for a face and, in Reichardt's words, "some pretty hard-hitting facts and pictures about the abuse that the horse has had to endure at the hands of man" presented as mosaics on its body.
"Sung", a perfect wee lyric take on Burns's "Mary Morison" (even the name on the overgrown gravestone is turned into a Sappho-like fragment here), says, in its last couplet, that the song's the thing that will survive: "– a skull for a bonnie head / – and love a simile, a rose, red, red".
(Mr. Moylan said the Beard work chosen to illustrate the advertisement may have had something to do with this. It is called "The Power of Death". It features a white-robed man with a death skull for a head body-slamming a fierce saber-toothed tiger onto the body of a fallen elephant).
This Ghost Rider rode a motorcycle, wore a blue leather costume, and had a blazing skull for a head, making him one of the most visually arresting characters in comics.
Not only was Tongo the most wicked, he was also the most ugly, possessing only a cracked skull for a head.
Mr. Smith's selling price, said Chief Jacks, was $5 a skull, $10 for a body.
Sega vetoed this, however, and the character was changed to a skull design for the game's retail release.
