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This combination portrait/still life shows Gauguin's ability to take the best of various artists he admired. For example, the abrupt way Laval's face is cut off is a tribute to Edgar Degas' off-centered, oddly-cropped compositions, while setup of the still life and the parallel brush strokes in the fruit harken to Paul Cézanne's work.
Around this time, simple still-life depictions divorced of figures (but not allegorical meaning) were beginning to be painted on the outside of shutters of private devotional paintings. [9] Another step toward the autonomous still life was the painting of symbolic flowers in vases on the back of secular portraits around 1475. [16]
When van Gogh created still life paintings he was able to explore light and its effect on colors. A close-up of the bottle in Still Life with Straw Hat reveals that way in which van Gogh used varying shades of the same color to depict how light would fall, or be shaded, in the everyday items he painted from home or the garden. [4]
Still Life with Apples, Pears, Lemons and Grapes (F382) was Van Gogh's opportunity to explore Blanc's recommendation about combining colors: "If one brings together sulfur (yellow) and garnet (dark red), which is its exact opposite, being equidistant from nasturtium (orange) and campanula (blue-mauve), the garnet and sulfur will excite one ...
Although very few contemporary sources mention Galizia's still life paintings, they are the majority of her surviving works. Sixty-three works have been catalogued as hers, of which 44 are still-lifes. [5] Her only known signed still life, made in 1602, [1] is the first known dated still life by an Italian artist. [6]
Pronkstilleven (Dutch for 'ostentatious', 'ornate' or 'sumptuous' still life) is a style of ornate still life painting, characterised by large and complex compositions and an elaborate palette. Pronkstillevens typically depict a wide variety of objects, fruits, flowers and inanimate animals, often accompanied by live human and animal figures.
Still Life of Fruit, Dead Birds, and a Monkey (Dutch: Stilleven van vruchten in en voor een rieten mand, dode vogels en een aap) is a painting by the Dutch artist Clara Peeters, c. 1615-1620. [1] It is a still life , painted in oils on a wooden panel , measuring 47.6 cm × 65.5 cm (18.7 in × 25.8 in).
The Breakfast Table is a 1958 still life painting by Australian artist John Brack. The painting depicts a table after breakfast but before the plates, cups and cutlery have been cleared. Breakfast has finished and the participants have gone, although the detective-like artist has set out visual clues that tell us about the people who were here.