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Fruit of the Sea: Paintings of seashells 2

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Seashells appear in Turner’s myths, Dyce’s fresco for Queen Victoria, twice in Elihu Vedder’s work, and in Odilon Redon’s. And a story from Rubens about seashells and colour.

June 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Fruit of the Sea: Paintings of seashells 1

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Huge clam shells were a common feature in paintings of the birth of Venus, and other classical myths. They also feature in many ‘vanitas’ paintings.

June 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Still Life History: 3 The Dutch Golden Age

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It flourished and brought commercial success to many artists, and laid the foundations for sub-genres. Still lifes were among the most innovative and exciting paintings of the day.

May 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Still Life History: 2 Clara Peeters the pioneer

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Between about 1607-21 she painted exclusively still lifes. Highly innovative, she led the way for the many painters who succeeded her.

May 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Emptiness of It All: Vanitas paintings

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Curious still lifes and more containing allegories about the emptiness and futility of life on earth, and its brevity. Even seen in Cézanne and Jacek Malczewski.

November 19, 2017 General, Life, Painting

The Riches of the Table, and the Futility of Life: Clara Peeters’ still lifes

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One of the finest still-life painters of any age, some of her work celebrated the sensual pleasures of food, others the futility of life.

May 27, 2017 General, Life, Painting
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