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Posted inBooks

A Fresh Look at Flowers in Photography

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford December 12, 2022January 9, 2023

Can photographers capture the vitality of flowers compellingly, innovatively, and beautifully? A new book gives a resounding yes.

Posted inOpinion

Elon Musk’s Strange Twitter Still Life

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian November 28, 2022November 29, 2022

What does it mean when the world’s richest person trolls us?

Posted inBooks

Walter Murch Sought to “Paint the Air” Between His Eye and His Subject

by Carl Little May 19, 2022May 19, 2022

Murch’s painted dust can be so tangible you feel compelled to wipe off the picture.

Posted inBooks

Robert Vas Dias’s Words Explore the Fact of Things

by Burt Kimmelman October 6, 2021October 7, 2021

In a hybrid text combining criticism and poems Robert Vas Dias explores the paradoxes of still life painting.

Posted inBooks

A Forgotten Female Flower Painter, Revived

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford September 19, 2021September 17, 2021

One hundred years after Mary Hiester Reid’s death, Flower Diary recovers the elusive, overlooked artist’s life and work

Posted inArt

When the Exhibition Becomes a Work of Art

by David Carrier January 11, 2020January 10, 2020

Who would have thought that still lifes would create such a strong reaction?

Posted inArt

The Story of Charles Ethan Porter, an African American Still-Life Painter

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick December 25, 2019January 14, 2022

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.

Posted inArt

Rehabilitating the Untrendy Tradition of Still Life Painting

by Lilly Lampe January 18, 2017

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

by Claire Voon July 27, 2016July 28, 2016

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

Avatar photo by John Seed November 26, 2015December 1, 2015

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?

Posted inArt

A Poetics of Appropriation: On Sharon Core

by Donna Stonecipher October 17, 2015October 21, 2015

Sharon Core does not simply make photographs of still lifes that exactly re-create paintings, she creates the still lifes — literally.

Posted inArt

A Decade of Drawing the Metropolitan Museum’s Flowers

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 13, 2015August 18, 2015

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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