In a hybrid text combining criticism and poems Robert Vas Dias explores the paradoxes of still life painting.
Still life
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A Forgotten Female Flower Painter, Revived
One hundred years after Mary Hiester Reid’s death, Flower Diary recovers the elusive, overlooked artist’s life and work
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When the Exhibition Becomes a Work of Art
Who would have thought that still lifes would create such a strong reaction?
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The Story of Charles Ethan Porter, an African American Still-Life Painter
Porter’s struggle, and the ensuing invisibility of his work, are as much a part of his story as his masterful paintings that dignify humble everyday objects.
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Rehabilitating the Untrendy Tradition of Still Life Painting
In their two-artist show at Mrs. Gallery, Sarah Bedford and Tracy Miller offer complementary approaches to bringing the historically devalued genre of still life painting into the 21st century.
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Study of 500 Years of Still Lifes Confirms We’ve Long Had an Appetite for Exotic Foods
The Dutch loved painting lemons; Italians, oranges and pears. Meanwhile, artists from the US and France were the most likely to incorporate the humble cracker into their canvases.
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Some Doritos with Your Goya? Old Master Still Lifes Get an Update
With a bit too much time on my hands and a subscription to Adobe Photoshop I have been playing with an idea: what will happen to traditional still life paintings when elements from contemporary life are grafted into them?
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A Poetics of Appropriation: On Sharon Core
Sharon Core does not simply make photographs of still lifes that exactly re-create paintings, she creates the still lifes — literally.
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A Decade of Drawing the Metropolitan Museum’s Flowers
For 10 years, artist Abbie Zabar had a ritual: go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and sketch the new floral arrangements adorning the entrance hall.
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Bruce Kurland’s Unorthodoxy, or ‘Arrangement with Duck’s Skull, Romaine Lettuce, and Migratory Bird Stamp’
Ever since viewing what turned out to be the final solo show of Bruce Kurland (1938-2013), at the Victoria Munroe Gallery in New York City in 1990, I have been haunted by his intimate oil paintings.
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Still Life Mayhem
These days you can’t walk out of the house without tripping over an abstract painting.
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Janet Fish and the Primacy of Perception
Considering the art of the painter Janet Fish, who currently has works spanning fifteen years on display at DC Moore Gallery, I found myself pulling books off the shelf by the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.