Word: lifesized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still-life painting is perhaps the mildest form of art. While expressionists leap from pique to pique, and abstractionists zero grimly in on private voids, the still-life artist tidily rules a table-top world of unmoving, everyday things. Chances are he paints in a sitting position, slowly and with...
Still-Lifer Menocal is a banker's son, born 35 years ago in Boston. He studied art at the Boston museum art school, served as a gunner's mate on the U.S.S. Massachusetts during World War II, came to Manhattan to work as an illustrator for Conde Nast...
"Please do not touch!" reads the sign posted beside the display of still lifes on exhibit in the University of Wisconsin's Library Gallery in Madison. But the fascinating assortment of smoking pipes, fiddles, Confederate bills, newspaper scraps and crumpled chewing-gum wrappers-all seeming to leap out of...
The 3-D still lifes were the work of the university's artist in residence, Aaron Bohrod. With them Artist Bohrod, 47, emerges as one of the foremost exponents of Trompe-l'Oeil (fool-the-eye) painting in the U.S. since the 19th century's
The Bestsellers. Of the serious paintings in reproduction, those by Van Gogh. Renoir. Cezanne and Degas have long been the bestsellers. Van Gogh's popularity is based on relatively few pictures -the more decorative and least emo tional of his canvases. His View at La Craii, also known as...