Still Life Flashcards
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John Jonstan
Still Life with fruit, 1810
- Still Lifes wwre decorative. One could not have flowers inside all year
- ride of wealth made people buy more art
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Charles Bird King
The poor artist cupboard, 1815
- Tromp l’oeil - to fool the eye
- details and symbolism
- paper in corner talks about an artist estate= all he owned was his paintings
- full of little notes that realte to an artist and poverty
- living off of bread and water
- artist is unknown. Some fancy objects
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James Peale
Balsam Apple and Vegtables
- Always lit form let side
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Rapaelle Peale
- Has the skill but refuses to paint portraits
- Lack of concern about conventions
- People interpret thm as representeations of psychological themes
- one can unpack mnultiple meanings
- his paintings connect with various audience depending on which angle you take on reading it.
Blackberris, 1812
- berries are almost touching table -
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Raphaelle Peale
Cutlet and Vegtables, 1816
-Asparagus are analyzed to be his fingers
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Raphaelle Peale
Still life with steak
- violence and sexuallity
- fall still life
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Raphaelle Peale
Apples and Fox grapes 1816
- Rotten fruit/decaying sinsibility
- The cut in the orange has the same shape as LL in his signature
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Raphaelle Peale
Venus rising from the sea - a depiction (After the bath), 1823
- To fool you thath behind the cloth is a naked woman print
- one has done x-ray and found a painting of the artist. Just as his fathers museum painting. The painting si a copy of a portrait his father did of him.
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Severin Roesen 1815-1872
- Crouded compositions - From germany
- Decorative rather than intellectually challanging
- Victorians loved thair still lifes
- From templates
- insp dutch 17/18 C paintings. Color, composition
Still Life with Fruit and Champagne, 1852
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Severin Roesen
Still Life: Flowers, 1852
