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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]
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Still Life with a Sketch after Delacroix; Still Life with a Turkey Pie; Still Life with Books; Still Life with Bread and Eggs; Still Life with Cake; Still Life with Candlestick; Still Life with Checked Tablecloth; Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels; Still Life with Exotic Birds; Still Life with Fruit (Caravaggio) Still Life with ...
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 ...
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).
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Because of both the extraordinary virtuosity of its execution and the complexity of meaning suggested by its composition, scholars have referred to the Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge as a "capital picture for the artist" and a "masterpiece of still life." While at one level the painting is a bravura study of texture and form and light ...
Still Life with a Sketch after Delacroix [2] is an oil painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin. The undated work is thought to have been painted during the artist's 1887 stay in Martinique . It was bequeathed to the Strasbourg museum by Raymond Koechlin [ fr ] (of the Koechlin family ) in 1931 and is now on display in the Musée d'Art ...