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...both traditional and nontraditional still life. “Still Life with Melon” features the heavy round shapes of the melon, peaches, plates and grapes, balanced with traditional bourgeois taste. In contrast, “The Tea Set” is evidence of Japanese influence on the Impressionist movement: a tea tray rests diagonally on the floor, as if the artist happened upon it accidentally. The painting is beautifully understated and fragile...
...paintings in Impressionist Still Life are all there for a reason, but some are more famous or considered more significant than others. Henri Fantin-Latour’s “Still Life: Corner of a Table” (1873), for example, is thought to be the culmination of what he was trying to do artistically: to arrange a still life so as to make it seem unarranged...
...Impressionist Still Life is rich with meaning because many of the paintings, as well as being important aesthetically, have anecdotal significance. They trace friendships and artistic influences among the featured painters and tell personal histories. Fantin-Latour’s beautifully balanced composition of color compliments, “The Betrothal Still Life” (1869), was the artist’s proposal of marriage to Mademoiselle Dubourg. “Moss Roses in a Vase” (1882) is a touching still life Manet painted while dying, composed of flowers given to him by friends (most of whom were...
...atelier of Charles Gleyre in Paris in 1862 formed friendships between Impressionist greats including Claude Monet, Frédéric Bazille, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Impressionist Still Life displays Bazille’s and Sisley’s versions of “The Heron,” which they painted side by side in 1867. Several Bazille and Renoir paintings were created while the two were sharing a studio...
...Impressionist Still Life gives its viewer a broad and deep understanding of the Impressionist movement and still life painting. It succsefully captures the balance between tradition and innovation, history and aesthetics, convention and individual expression, world-famous works and those that are less familiar, and realistic representation and stylized arrangement...