Thursday, July 31, 2008
Margaret Olley - Australian
Chinese Screen
Once, during a visit to an art gallery, the Australian still life painter Margaret Olley had a flash of realisation: the secret of still life painting is space. Not just the objects but the nothingness between objects. This is a secret known by Chardin and Morandi.
Olley's compositions have a decentred, unhierarchical quality. Sometimes there is no obvious centre of interest for the eye to rest upon. Because the eye does not rest on objects, the sense of space space in the painting is felt.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Vuillard - The Sunny Room 46.4 x 53.3 cm
details
Ittenbach - details
Fantin-Latour
detail
Stephen Slaughter - detail
Pieter Claesz - detail
Carducius Plantagenet-Ream
details
John Wainwright - details
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Contemporary US Classical Realists
Carol Broman
Douglas Flynt - USA - Two Kings, 9 x 12 inches
Nicholas Hiltner - 9 x 12 in 2007
Tony Rider - Blue Angel, 17 x 20 in, USA
Old Masters
Cornelis Kruys, 58 x 84 cm
Jan Davidsz. De Heem, 38 x 47 cm
Hans Bollangier, 42 x 47.5 cm
Jan Jansz, 67.7 x 87.2 cm
Jan Jansz, Treck, 50.8 x 66.7 cm
Florence Roberge - Canada
Use of warm yellow in background gives a contemporary feel in which subject and background are of more or less equal importance in the overall design.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Juliette Aristides - USA
18x 25 inches
She combines the genres of still life and landscape.
The tablecloth becoming distant hills.
In other works she combines figurative and still life.
Some still life painters include a painting in the background.
Christopher Pierce, Sunflowers, USA
Sunflowers in Blue and White Vase,
Oil on Canvas, 40 x 50 inches, 2007