Category: Still Life

Rouen Ware by Dora Carrington

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Rouen Ware by Dora Carrington

Rouen Ware
1923
Still Life
Oil, Ink, and Silver Foil on Glass

‘Rouen Ware’ is a colourful depiction of flowers, fruit, and a plumed bird on a brass urn. Essentially a collage on glass Carrington created by outlining the design on the back of the pane and then filling the outline with foil paper and transparent and opaque paints.

Dora Carrington 1893-1932

Dora Carrington
The Bloomsbury Group Artists, Proto-Feminist Artists
Born: 29 March 1893, Hereford, England
Nationality: British
Died: 11 March 1932, Newbury, England

Carrington was a painter and decorative artist, associated with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey. She was known simply by her surname as she considered “Dora” to be vulgar and sentimental

L’Atelier de l’artiste by Louis Daguerre

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L’Atelier de l’artiste by Louis Daguerre

L’Atelier de l’artiste
1837
Photography
Copper plate
Société Française de Photographie, Paris, France

‘L’Atelier de l’artiste’ (The Artist’s Studio) is considered the first successful daguerreotype. From a window, natural light casts its dramatic shadows across the plaster casts and other effects of the artist. Daguerre’s photograph carries a discernible romanticism with its intones providing a direct link between photography and traditional still-life painting.

Louis Daguerre 1787-1851

Louis Daguerre
Modern Photography
Born: 18 November 1787, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France
Nationality: French
Died: 10 July 1851, Bry-sur-Marne, France

Daguerre was an artist and photographer, known for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography, Daguerre is best known for his photography but he was also an accomplished painter, scenic designer, and a developer of diorama theatre

Basket of Wild Strawberries by Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin

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Basket of Wild Strawberries by Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin

Basket of Wild Strawberries
1761
Still Life
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

Towards the end of his life after a series of personal tragedies, Chardin sought refuge in still-life painting after a long hiatus from the genre. “Basket of Wild Strawberries” exemplifies this late period of his work with Chardin’s dedication to the simplicity of everyday, household objects, but employing new approaches and techniques with a more sophisticated eye for the geometric composition of a piece.

Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin 1699-1779

Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin
The Rococo
Born: 2 November 1699, Paris France
Nationality: French
Died: 6 December 1779, Paris, France

Chardin was a painter and he was considered a master of still life and was also noted for his genre paintings. A carefully balanced composition with a soft diffused light and granular impasto is characteristic of his work

Table, Napkin, and Fruit by Paul Cézanne

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Table, Napkin, and Fruit by Paul Cézanne

Table, Napkin, and Fruit
1895-1900
Still Life
Oil on canvas
The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania, USA

Cézanne created his own semi-sculptural approach to still life after studying the Old Dutch and French Masters at the Louvre and other Parisian galleries. Strewn across an upturned table his images of fruit and other pictorial elements appear to rest on the solidity of the wood yet float across the surface of the canvas. Cézanne includes chairs, screens, pitchers, and wine bottles suggesting that the gaze of the viewer rises vertically up the canvas as opposed to plunging into any implied corner

Paul Cézanne 1839-1906

Paul Cézanne
Post-Impressionism, Cubism
Born: 19 January 1839, Aix-en-Provence, France
Nationality: French
Died: 22 October 1906, Aix-en-Provence, France

Cézanne was an artist and Post-Impressionist painter. His work introduced new styles of representation and influenced the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century. Art historians consider Cézanne to have bridged the late 19th-century impressionism and the early 20th-century Cubism