Simon Luttichuys

Luttichuys was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

The subdued palette, consisting of interesting greys, browns and whites, and the composition with its central glass, is restful to the eye.

Interesting greys can be made by mixing colours which are opposite on the colour wheel. If the colours are incompletely mixed, with suggestions of the constituent pigments visible, then the greys become vibrant and alive. A subdued palette does not have to be a dead one. The absence of bright colours in this case allows the painting to showcase the subtle play of light on various objects: reflective metal, transparent glass, absorptive cloth.

Olga Sugorova

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.