Still+Life

__the Still Life __

Sub category is Xenia - still life that deals with food.

Caravaggio was a master of light and shadow, but what a troubled man. He may have killed someone, I'm just saying?

Watercolor for Three Skulls. watercolor

Paul Cezanne - Still Life with Skulls,oil

Vanitas - beware the earthly Vanities. Peter Claesz (Dutch), oil These painting dealt with warnings concerning personalities, vanities and morals. They used many symbols to get their message across such as the skull and hour glass.

Watercolor study for Cezanne's three skulls, watercolor

Cezanne's-Three Skulls,oil

Philippe Champaign A painting with a clear warning. What might it be? A flower, a skull, and an hour glass, mmmm? oil

Van Gogh - Still Life's

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Van Gogh - The Old Shoes, oil

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Van Gogh - Roses, oil

__Raphaelle Peale - Still Life's __

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Raphaelle Peale, Watermelon, oil - Xenia

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R.P, Orange on Book, oil

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R.P., Cake,oil

__Paul Cezanne - Watercolors and Oils __ oil oil

This may be a Matisse done after a Cezanne. oil watercolor

pencil, pastel? oil Do you see a difference in the paint handling between the oils and Watercolors? watercolor

watercolor Look At the amount of lines used and the way color overlaps color making new lines and color. Could this be a beginning for Cubism?

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__Georgio Morandi - Still Life's __

Morandi did studies for all his paintings especially the still life paintings. He used pencil and watercolor. Once he started a painting if he did not like the way it was going, he'd scrape the oil paint off the canvas and onto the floor. He would then begin again. He was on the brink of greatness when he decided to leave Paris and its modern art and go back to Bologna, Italy to live and paint in his families home. He may have become a Fascists as Italy was under Mussolini's rule at this time. This may have been a way to stay alive or maybe he really believed in being a Fascist. Pencil Pencil - Working out positive/negative spaces. It was the space between as in the space between notes in music. Pencil Oil Composition. What is the focal point?

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Watercolor Drawing - Do you think the drawing above could be related to the painting below? Morandi drew constantly working out his theories about composition. Oil

Oil Again. What is the focal point?

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__Edward Manet - Impressionist __

Edward Manet - oil Sub Category of still life known as natura morte Know mainly for his portraits, His still life paintings were beautiful whether dead fish, fruit or dead animals. Notice his use of black and how "up" in the foreground his focal point is. Edward Manet - oil - Look at the brush strokes, They are very loose and flowing. Objects are described in one or two strokes, color values make forms, this is the beginning of Impressionism.

oil The first crime scene painting?

oil Manet did many beautiful small flower paintings as well as other types of still life. He also redefined the art of the portrait.

__Richard Diebenkorn __ Diebenkorn was a west Coast artist that explored figurative painting (Bay Area Figurative Painters) before finding his footing with the Ocean Park series of abstracts based upon his neighbor and it's landscapes. He drew every morning for at least two hours, usually figures or still life or sketches for his paintings and usually in black and white,charcoal or paint — watercolors or oil or mixtures. oil oil In a Diebenkorn everything happens quickly. Objects are observed then painted. They are objects he knows, we know, we live with. Paint is applied loosely and in an expressive manner. The paint is thick. Things happen and there are few corrections that cannot be seen. The history of the painting is right there. There is no way to cover up, there is no need to cover up. Oil-Small paintings are intimate. They are usually done quickly. In Diebenkorn's case they are like studies in color and composition. Simple objects become major players, in the league with angels and mythological figures. These feel similar to Manet's small work. oil __David Bogart __ oil

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The artists used here is unknown but is this finished or not?

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pencil and watercolor - What constitutes a finished painting?

__Wayne Thiebaud __ watercolouroil oil watercolor or a print

Wayne Thiebaud was known as a Pop Artist but rejected this label. He felt he was more a kin to Stewart Davis and the American image painters. He is still alive and painting. His paintings are known for their color, draftsmanship and the use of complementary colored lines that encompass all or part of his images. oil

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