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Van Schooten's painting, which was a very common type of painting for its time, was a very typical still life that depicted food and drinks on a table with a crisp white tablecloth. Dali wanted to give his own take on it, and give it his surrealist signature by showing all of the objects in motion. He also added the tablecloth, which looks very ...
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.).
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 ...
The Basket of Apples (French: Le panier de pommes) is a still-life oil painting by French artist Paul Cézanne, which he created c. 1893.The painting rejected naturalistic representation in favor of distorting objects to create multiple perspectives.
Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550–1720, (Dutch:Het Nederlandse Stilleven 1550–1720) is a 1999 art exhibition catalog published for a jointly held exhibition by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (19 June – 9 September 1999) and Cleveland Museum of Art (31 October 1999 – 9 January 2000).
Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier (English: Curtain, Jug and Fruit Bowl) is an oil on canvas painting created c. 1893 to 1894 by French artist Paul Cézanne.It is a formal still life composition that displays Cézanne's exploration of form, balance and symmetry in objects.
'Still Life with Imaginary View', oil on oak panel painting by Laurens Craen, c. 1645–50, Art Gallery of New South Wales [1] Laurens Craen (c. 1620 in The Hague – c.1670 in Middelburg), was a Dutch Golden Age still life painter. Laurens Craen was active between 1638 and 1664. [2] He was possibly the son of Pieter Craen.