Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In terms of public reception in his day, he might have done better to paint even more still lifes. In terms of ...
Judith Linhares, "Freya’s Flowers" (2024), oil on linen (all image courtesy Judith Linhares and P·P·O·W, New York, © Judith Linhares. Photos Ian Edquist) The ...
Sotheby’s London is offering what is believed to be the only known self-portrait by Clara Peeters (ca. 1589–ca. 1657), the famed Flemish still life painter. A presumed self-portrait with a lavish ...
Even during the sixteenth century, when the Holy Roman Emperor resided in Spain and made that country the greatest power of the earth, Spain could never aspire to cultural hegemony over the rival ...
Among several modes enthusiastically adopted by painters in the last century, spontaneity is still held in the highest regard. Having proved durable for artists of varying ideologies and orientations, ...
In a still life painting, the subjects cannot move. The bowl of fruit remains sedentary on the table. The hunk of cheese goes uneaten. The candles do not flicker. That's the rule according to the very ...
The Kimbell Art Museum's yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. The Cut Melon, a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist, has been ...
The Denver Art Museum is celebrating the newest addition to its permanent collection. The featured work is called "Repose." ...
Weber, Bruce, "The Heart of the matter: the still lifes of Marsden Hartley," New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2003, fig. 8. Baker, John, "Henry Lee McFee and Formalist Realism in American Still Life, ...