Thursday, July 31, 2008

Rehfisch


Carol Black


Dorrit Black


Margaret Preston - Australian


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.

Eastern Vases


Hookah Base,V&A Museum

Thai Pottery

Bencharond

Chinese Jar

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

Islamic Vases



Iznik style pot
Source: www.amirmohtaseni.com

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Benito Espinós


Jacob Marrel


27 x 33.9 cm

Juan van der Hamne


Offering to Flora, 1627, Prado

Donatella Wachtel


Floral Surprise, 18 x 18 inches

Elias van den Broeck



Interesting lightning bolt composition.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Sir George Clausen


Carnations and Pinks, 14 x 17 inches

Wallpaper



Idea for stencilled wallpaper background behind still life subject.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Edward Ladell



Grapes Peaches Raspberries Plums Walnuts

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

Werner de Caro - contemporary


Detail

Patricia Watwood - USA


Dahlias, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 18 inches, 2007

Nicholas Hiltner - USA


Rose with Shears, Oil on Linen, 8 x 10 inches, 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