Still Life – Theory Task Jan Davidsz De Heem Jan Davidsz De Heem Was Dutch still-life painter. He was born at Utrecht and his rare early pictures are in the style of Balthasar van der Ast‚ who taught him there. Later he worked in Leiden and showed that he had studied the restrained and simple works of the Haarlem still-life artists Claesz. and Heda. In 1636 he moved to Antwerp‚ became a citizen of that city in 1637‚ and spent most of his very productive life there. The paintings he did in Flanders
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to his special talents‚ he was admitted to the second year of the foundation course the following October. The Accademia awarded him with honors a diploma in October 1913 due to his excellent academic record. Morandi lived in Bologna throughout his life‚ except for a couple of short stays during World War II in ‚a near by village called Grizzana . Morandi was 28 at the end of the First World War (1914 -1918) and 55 when the Second World War (1939 -1945) ended. After a year-long illness‚ Giorgio
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Still Life with Golden Bream‚ by Francisco de Goya‚ is a painting painted 1808-1812. This painting expresses sympathy for uncorrupted innocents‚ a tyranical authority‚ and the imagination and intensity of feeling‚ all big points that Romanticism taught. It depicts a group of fish all piled upon each other‚ staring dead into the sky. While this painting was in the works‚ the peninsular War was going on. The conflict was between Napoleon and the Allied powers of Spain; in its wake‚ many suffered casualties
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#2—Jan Jansz den Uyl‚ Breakfast Still Life with Glass and Metalwork Breakfast Still Life with Glass and Metalwork is an oil on panel produced by Jan Jansz den Uyl‚ an artist of the Dutch Baroque period. The painting is dated around 1637-39 and measures 130.5 x 115.5cm. It depicts a disarray of objects—pewter‚ goblets‚ plates and unfinished food—strewn across the tabletop on top of a piece of rumpled white linen. Although it may seem like an ordinary still-life painting‚ the artist attempts to
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Still-life painting was appearing to become more popular in Italy‚ northern Europe and Spain in the 16th Century. Over time‚ it became more common in these places‚ and artists began to change what they painted‚ and instead focused on painting plants‚ animals and man-made objects. The objects that were put into the still-life paintings were that of new discoveries‚ when the Spanish and the Dutch began to explore overseas territory. The ‘foreign specimens’ created huge excitement with the people of
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in One Claesz’s Vanitas Still Life is an Oil on Panel still life depicting various objects on a table. A violin rests on top of a booklet. A wine glass is keeled over the booklet as well. Behind the booklet is a human skull. Left to the violin lies a round silver ball that casts a reflection of the painter painting this picture. In front of the round silver ball lies a snuff box. Lying right next to the snuff box is a key with a lanyard attached to it. Vanitas Still Life portrays two realities in
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William Grant Still was born in rural Mississippi on May 11‚ 1895 to parents who made a modest living teaching. Today Still is the most famous African American composer. Still’s father‚ though he died when Still three months old was‚ was one of his biggest influence. His father was a local band leader. After his fathers’ death‚ Still and his mother moved to Little Rock‚ Arkansas where she was a High School English teacher for nearly thirty years. Still’s step father‚ Charles Shepperson‚ nurtured
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Do you think Tina’s life could still be meaningful? Life could be meaningful as long as Tina is able to overcome the hardship of losing her husband and daughter by accident. However‚ she might realize that her life became meaninglessness‚ since her life full of important feeling‚ emotions‚ and meanings by closely bonding to husband and daughter but all gone in sudden. Therefore‚ it must be a challenge to her to admit that their deaths were an ongoing natural process human being requiring going through
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Braque’s oil painting is a cubistic still-life. It’s content seems to be made up of what looks like his belongings – a violin‚ a fruit bowl‚ a candlestick‚ a newspaper etc. As he lived in Paris at the time this painting was produced‚ these belongings would have been in his apartment in one of the most artistic city in the world. I am guessing the process he used to create this piece is by dabbing paint onto the canvas instead casually painting with it. This gives texture to the painting rather than
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pan (Oeufs sur plat) is a still life painting by french artist Antoine Vollon. It is an oil painting on canvas depicting four eggs and their yellow yolks in a pan‚ sitting on a shelf or bench next to a pitcher of (presumably) water or milk. It was painted in the period between 1885 and 1890 and is now a part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. The artist‚ Antoine Vollon‚ was born in France in the year 1833. He focused primarily on still life painting but also painted
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