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The exhibition flows almost chronologically, beginning with the realism of Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), and ending with the postimpressionism of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). The viewer does not get a snapshot of one small movement, but instead comes away with a sense of...
The exhibition is everything but a catalogue of flowers and peaches: the paintings depict shoes, tea sets, books, skulls, figures, and carcasses. Experimenting with unique subject matter allowed impressionists to stretch the limits of still life painting, and the exhibition successfully illustrates this breadth. The range of artists is also...
But Gerolimatas said she also paints still-lifes and landscapes and said she is particularly proud of her portraits of her parents—a portrait of her mother was, in fact, her first painting.
Van Gogh was consumed with the desire to learn from an artist who was already successful. In Arles, he tried to be less literal in his depictions, more sparing with his paint, blurring the outlines of his still lifes. But eventually the urge to express his soul could not be...
Koch understood material substance, and he matched it with an unfailing sense of the beauty of paint as an autonomous surface, something to be enjoyed in its own right. His still lifes are exquisite. He was not attracted to raw landscape--liking neither vast American space nor the feeling of...