Stanislav Zhukovsky

Interior with Samovar, 1914, 41 x 39.5 inches.


The Easter Table.




Stanislav Zhukovsky (1875-1944) was a Polish/Russian impressionist painter.

Mogra

This is a photograph, not a painting. Called mogra in India, this type of jasmine is worn by South Indian women, tied around the hair bun. Riding on a bus in a Chennai (Madras) one is enveloped in the heady fragrance of these blooms worn by the female passengers. The garlands are tied deftly with some kind of long grass twine, and sold from baskets on street corners. Hopefully this trade will not die out as India modernises and loses many of its customs.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Petunias, 1925

Robie

Red Background

Thomas Cooper Gotch, Hydrangeas

Abbott Fuller Graves

Mary Fedden

Lunch in the Port, 1964.
This image was found on still life quick heart.

Margaret Olley

The Australian still life painter Margaret Olley passed away recently. She was a larger than life character in the Sydney art scene who was twice the subject of Archibald Portrait Prize winning entries by other artists. Though in her late 80s she was working towards an exhibition when she died in her sleep. A good way to go.

Her small terrace house in Paddington was full of objects she had collected over her life for composing her still life paintings.

Jacob van Walscapelle

 detail

Karl Voss, 1848-1871

30 x 40 cm

Joseph Nigg (Austrian 1782-1863)

Otto Didrik Ottesen

Bollongier

Rijksmuseum

Emil Carlsen

Still Life with Green Peppers and Jug

Holthausen

Ludwig Holthausen, 1807-1890, German, Summer Bouquet, 31 x 26 cm

Ferdinand Waldmuller

Flowers in an Attic Bell Crater

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin

White Roses

Abraham van Beyeren

detail of cloth

Guiliam Gabron

Guiliam Gabron, Antwerp, 17th century

Jan Davidsz de Heem

Ernst Stuven

Georgia O'Keefe

Jonquils, 1936

“So I said to myself – I’ll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.”

“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven’t time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

- Georgia O’Keefe (1887-1986)

Muted Complementaries

This Istanbul interior, by the American plein air painter Kenny Harris, is both simple and complex. It makes use of the quiet harmony of muted complementaries: a red-green scheme framing a yellow-blue scheme.