Download or read book Still Lifes written by Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning beauty and diversity of 17th-century Dutch still-life painting raises many questions about developments in style and technique. What materials did artists use to produce these works? How were they made? Did all the still-life painters of the period use the same methods and materials? Can we relate differences in materials and methods to differences in style? These questions are explored by the conservators and curators of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum and scientists attached to the Molart project (Molecular aspect of aging in art) in an examination of paintings by Jan Brueghel, Balthasar van der Ast, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Willem Kalf, Rachel Ruysch, and Jan van Huysum.
Download or read book History of Still Life and Flower Painting written by Montclair Art Museum and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Still life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550 1720 written by Alan Chong and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning book presents the very best still lifes produced in the Netherlands at the height of the genre, from the early beginnings in the 16th century, with Pieter Aertsen and Joachim Beuckelaer, to the late highlights in the 18th century, with Rachel Ruysch and Jan van Huysum. Despite the popularity and abundance of flower paintings in modern collections, the book includes a wide range of subjects and styles, from the simple to the complex, the charmingly small to the opulent and extravagant, and from flowers to hunting still lifes or objects in the corner of a painter's studio, along with an occasional trompe l'oeil. The visual delights of still-life painting have a strong historical context. Collectors and connoisseurs purchased them because of their realism, visual appeal, and relevance to their own lives. Poets praised the wonders of still-life paintings and evoked the power of painting to transcend the seasons and the passing of time. Contemporary observers lauded the expensive and elaborate objects often on display. The book therefore considers the visual achievement of the Netherlandish still life painters in the context of contemporary reactions to pictures, art theory, and issues of patronage. Numerous artists were tempted to try their hand at still life, drawn by a new and enchanting genre that allowed an artist to create independent worlds of inanimate objects on the flat surface of a picture -- imaginary realms that had an exceptional following among connoisseurs of the time. These images continue to work their magic on present-day art lovers.
Download or read book Elegance and Refinement written by Willem van Aelst and published by Skira. This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The paintings of Willem van Aelst are known for their remarkably fine finish, carefully balanced compositions and elegant subject matter. Each work featured in this monograph represents a phase of the artist's career"--Nielsen Book Data.
Download or read book Still Life 120 illustrations written by Victoria Charles and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cézanne transformed a teacup into something alive, raising still-life to the point that it ceased to be inanimate. Wassily Kandinsky said about the French artist: “He painted these things as human beings because he was endowed with the gift of divining the inner life in everything.” In addition to those of Cézanne, this book is devoted to still-life paintings by artists such as Van Gogh, Matisse, Chardin and Picasso.
Download or read book History of Still Life and Flower Painting written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking at the Overlooked written by Norman Bryson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life, one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painting to Cubism. The third essay tackles the controversial field of seventeenth-century Dutch still life. Bryson concludes in the final essay that the persisting tendency to downgrade the genre of still life is profoundly rooted in the historical oppression of women. In Looking at the Overlooked, Norman Bryson is at his most brilliant. These superbly written essays will stimulate us to look at the entire tradition of still life with new and critical eyes.
Download or read book Seventeenth century Flemish Garland Paintings written by Susan Merriam and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on three celebrated northern European still life painters, Jan Brueghel, Daniel Seghers, and Jan Davidsz. de Heem, this book examines the emergence of the first garland painting in 1607-1608, and its subsequent transformation into a widely collected type of devotional image, curiosity, and decorative form. Susan Merriam explores how ultimately the genre served to re-cast the devotional picture in the wake of the iconoclasms of the Protestant Reformation.
Download or read book Still Life Before Still Life written by David Ekserdjian and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful book that argues artists were fascinated by still life painting considerably earlier than previously thought This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life significantly earlier than previously thought. Instead of the genre beginning in the early 17th century, noted scholar David Ekserdjian explores its origins in classical antiquity and the gradual re-emergence of still life in Renaissance painting. The author presents a visual anthology of finely executed flowers, fruit, food, household objects, and furnishings seen in the background of paintings. Paintings are reproduced in full and paired with detailed close-ups of still-life elements within the work. Ekserdjian further examines both the artistic and symbolic significance of a chosen detail, as well as information about each artist's career. Featured works include radiant paintings from Renaissance greats such as Da Vinci, D rer, Holbein, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Van Eyck, as well as the work of less-celebrated masters Barth lemy d'Eyck and Ortolano.
Download or read book Flower written by Celia Fisher and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about flowers and about painters. The author has chosen forty of her favourite flower paintings and as she is both expert gardener and art historian, she has all manner of fascinating things to say about the flowers, the artists and the contexts of the paintings. Manet's Still Life with Rose and Brioche may still hold secrets but it certainly records the arrival of the new hybrid tea rose in all its perfection. Vanessa Bell's Red Hot Pokers and Artichoke came in the wake of Roger Fry's Post-Impressionist exhibitions in London and at a time when Bell had found refuge and creative energy with Duncan Grant at Charleston. The paintings are not always the most obvious - Van Gogh is here represented by a ravishing branch of almond blossom. But Monet has his waterlilies and Rennie Mackintosh his delicate fritillaries and there is a feast of glorious Dutch bouquets. There is old and new, known and unknown in this wonderful collection. Each painting has been chosen both to delight the eye and to offer a source of lively stories and intriguing facts.
Download or read book Working Among Flowers written by Heather MacDonald and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue accompanies exhibitions at the following museums: Dallas Museum of Art, October 26, 2014-February 8, 2015; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, March 21-June 21, 2015; Denver Art Museum, July 19-October 11, 2015.
Download or read book Flower Diary written by Molly Peacock and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock’s insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and her luscious flower paintings.” — Charlotte Gray, author of The Massey Murder Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career. Born into a patrician American family in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mary Hiester Reid was determined to be a painter and left behind women’s design schools to enter the art world of men. After she married fellow artist George Reid, she returned with him to his home country of Canada. There she set about creating over 300 stunning still life and landscape paintings, inhabiting a rich, if sometimes difficult, marriage, coping with a younger rival, exhibiting internationally, and becoming well-reviewed. She studied in Paris, traveled in Spain, and divided her time between Canada and the United States where she lived among America’s Arts and Crafts movement titans. She left slender written records; rather, her art became her diary and Flower Diary unfolds with an artwork for each episode of her life. In this sumptuous and precisely researched biography, celebrated poet and biographer Molly Peacock brings Mary Hiester Reid, foremother of painters such as Georgia O’Keefe, out of the shadows, revealing a fascinating, complex woman who insisted on her right to live as a married artist, not as a tragic heroine. Peacock uses her poet’s skill to create a structurally inventive portrait of this extraordinary woman whom modernism almost swept aside, weaving threads of her own marriage with Hiester Reid’s, following the history of empathy and examining how women manage the demands of creativity and domesticity, coping with relationships, stoves, and steamships, too. How do you make room for art when you must go to the market to buy a chicken for dinner? Hiester Reid had her answers, as Peacock gloriously discovers.
Download or read book The Art of the Flower written by Norbert Schneider and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "flower piece" has existed as an art genre since the 16th century, but for decades the floral still life was considered unworthy of artists' attention because of its alleged superficiality and bourgeois banality. But now in the nineties, this old motif is enjoying a revival. ART OF THE FLOWER places the genre in its historical perspective.
Download or read book Vanitas Flower Collection The Art of Dutch Golden Age Flower Still Life 127 written by Pata Jo and published by Rarete Art. This book was released on with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanitas Flower Collection : The Art of Dutch Golden Age Flower Still Life 127 This book introduces the fascinating genre of Vanitas Flower paintings, which emerged in the Dutch Golden Age of the 16th and 17th centuries. These paintings depict various flowers that symbolize the transience of beauty, the futility of worldly pleasures, and the vanity of human achievements. The term Vanitas comes from the Latin phrase "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity", which begins the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. This phrase also inspired the Memento Mori philosophy, which urges people to remember their mortality and live accordingly. In this book, you will learn about the history, culture, and aesthetics of Vanitas Flower, and explore the works and artists of this genre, from the Dutch Golden Age to the present day. You will see how these paintings reflect the social and religious changes of the Dutch Republic, as well as the artistic influences of other countries and regions. You will also discover the hidden meanings and symbols behind the flowers depicted in these paintings, such as roses, tulips, lilies, carnations, sunflowers, and corn ears. [Featured Artist] - Anthony Claesz I - Willem Van Aelst - JAN Davidsz. de Heem - Abraham Hendrickz. van Beyeren - Abraham Mignon - Alexander Adriaenssen - Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder - Johannes Bosschaert - Ambrosius Bosschaert II - Balthasar van der Ast - Christoffel van den Berghe - Rachel RuyschJan - Dirck de Bray - Elias van den Broeck - Hans Gillisz. Bollongier - Roelant Savery - Jacob van Walscapelle - Jan Brueghel The Elder - Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder - Frans Snyders - Jan van Huysum - Joris van Son - Otto Marseus van Schrieck - Christiaen Striep - Jan Brueghel II - Hieronymus Galle - Philip van Kouwenbergh This book is a visual feast for anyone who appreciates art and history. You will be amazed by the beauty, detail, and diversity of these masterpieces, and gain a deeper understanding of their significance and relevance.
Download or read book Still Life written by S. Ebert-Schifferer and published by Abradale Press. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken together it is one of the great epic stories of Western art history.
Download or read book American Still life Painting written by William H. Gerdts and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1971 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Still Life Painting written by Charles Sterling and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
